Origin of coronal shock waves : IIInvited review

Solar Physics

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 215-235

  Vršnak, Bojan ^a   Cliver, Edward W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Shock waves; Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749170941     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-008-9241-5     Document Type: Article

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