Magnetic tornadoes as energy channels into the solar corona

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7404, 2012, Pages 505-508

  Wedemeyer Böhm, Sven ^a   Scullion, Eamon ^a   Steiner, Oskar ^b   Van Der Voort, Luc Rouppe ^a   De La Cruz Rodriguez, Jaime ^c   Fedun, Viktor ^d   Erdélyi, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONA; ENERGY FLUX; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR WIND; TORNADO; VORTEX;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; TORNADO; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 84862995040     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11202     Document Type: Article

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