Can We Determine Electric Fields and Poynting Fluxes from Vector Magnetograms and Doppler Measurements?

Solar Physics

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 153-163

  Fisher, G H ^a   Welsch, B T ^a   Abbett, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flares, dynamics; Helicity, magnetic; Magnetic fields, corona

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856225606     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-011-9816-4     Document Type: Article

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