Solar wind vs magnetosheath turbulence and Alfvén vortices

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-108

  Alexandrova, O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA; SOLAR WIND; TURBULENCE; VORTEX;

EID: 39449115794     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-95-2008     Document Type: Article

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