A self-consistent numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of helmet streamer and flux-rope interactions: Initiation and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs)

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 99, Issue , 1997, Pages 83-89

  Wu, S T ^a   Guo, W P ^a  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

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EID: 84955284624     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM099p0083     Document Type: Chapter

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