Why Do Temperature and Velocity Have Different Relationships in the Solar Wind and in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections?

Solar Physics

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-184

  Demoulin P ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Coronal mass ejections, interplanetary; Magnetic fields, interplanetary; Solar wind; Velocity fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349114390     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-009-9338-5     Document Type: Article

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