Oxygen flux in the solar wind: Ulysses observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Von Steiger, Rudolf ^a   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^b   McComas, David J ^c,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN; SOLAR ENERGY;

CORONAL HOLE; DATA COVER; HELIOSPHERES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN FLUXES; PROTON FLUX; SOLAR ACTIVITY LEVEL; SOLAR WIND DATA; ULYSSES;

SOLAR WIND;

FLUX MEASUREMENT; LATITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGEN; SOLAR WIND; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78649507693     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045389     Document Type: Article

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