Magneto-thermal convection in solar prominences

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7342, 2011, Pages 197-200

  Berger, Thomas ^a   Testa, Paola ^b   Hillier, Andrew ^c   Boerner, Paul ^a   Low, Boon Chye ^d   Shibata, Kazunari ^c   Schrijver, Carolus ^a   Tarbell, Ted ^a   Title, Alan ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; CORE (PLANETARY); LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 79954469281     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09925     Document Type: Article

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