Relation Between Coronal Hole Areas on the Sun and the Solar Wind Parameters at 1 AU

Solar Physics

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 793-813

  Rotter, T ^a   Veronig, A M ^a   Temmer, M ^a   Vrsnak B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Coronal holes; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869176061     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-012-0101-y     Document Type: Article

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