Anisotropy and Alfvénicity of hourly fluctuations in the fast polar solar wind

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A2, 2004, Pages

  Neugebauer, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfv n waves; Anisotropy; Solar wind; Ulysses

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749083051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009947     Document Type: Article

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