Interplanetary scintillation observations of stream interaction regions in the solar wind

Solar Physics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-172

  Bisi, M M ^a   Fallows, R A ^b   Breen, A R ^b   O'Neill, I J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Woods Fox Investments   (United States)

Author keywords

IPS, EISCAT; MkIII, Mauna Loa; SOHO, LASCO; Solar wind, SIRs; Ulysses, SWOOPS; Wind, SWE

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349117230     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-009-9471-1     Document Type: Article

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