Global MHD Modeling of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere for the Whole Heliosphere Interval

Solar Physics

Volumn 274, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 361-377

  Riley, P ^a   Lionello, R ^a   Linker, J A ^a   Mikic, Z ^a   Luhmann, J ^b   Wijaya, J ^a  

^a PREDICTIVE SCIENCE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corona; Corotating interaction regions; Interplanetary medium; Magnetic fields; Solar wind; Sun

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855335861     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-010-9698-x     Document Type: Article

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