Predictions of Energy and Helicity in Four Major Eruptive Solar Flares

Solar Physics

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 165-183

  Kazachenko, Maria D ^a,b   Canfield, Richard C ^a   Longcope, Dana W ^a   Qiu, Jiong ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flares, models; Flares, relation to magnetic field; Helicity, magnetic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856210577     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-011-9786-6     Document Type: Article

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