Magnetic helicity and relaxation phenomena in the solar corona

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 111, Issue , 1999, Pages 141-148

  Priest, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 4043138177     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM111p0141     Document Type: Chapter

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