Eruptive events in the solar atmosphere: New insights from theory and 3-D numerical modelling

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 237-254

  Roussev, Ilia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; MHD; Shock waves; Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549107181     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107510802366658     Document Type: Review

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