A global MHD solar wind model with WKB Alfvén waves: Comparison with Ulysses data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A6, 2000, Pages 12675-12695

  Usmanov, Arcadi V ^a   Goldstein, Melvyn L ^b   Besser, Bruno P ^c   Fritzer, Johannes M ^c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

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EID: 39449115935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja000233     Document Type: Review

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