Implications of the observed anticorrelation between solar wind speed and coronal electron temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A4, 2003, Pages

  Gloeckler, George ^a,b,d   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^b   Geiss, Johannes ^c  

^a Department of Physics/Space Physics Institute for Physical Science and Technology University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal electron temperature; Freezing in temperatures; Solar north south asymmetries; Solar wind; Solar wind speed and temperature correlations; Ulysses swics observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905333805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009286     Document Type: Article

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