Topological changes of the photospheric magnetic field inside active regions: A prelude to flares?

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 937-943

  Sorriso Valvo, Luca ^a   Carbone, Vincenzo ^a   Veltri, Pierluigi ^a   Abramenko, Valentina I ^b,e   Noullez, Alain ^c   Politano, Hélène ^c   Pouquet, Annick ^d   Yurchyshyn, Vasyl ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b CRIMEAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active regions; Flares

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

ACTIVE REGIONS; FLARES; HELICITY; SOLAR PHYSICS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 4544231266     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.02.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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