Helicity, reconnection, and dynamo effects

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 111, Issue , 1999, Pages 167-177

  Ji, Hantao ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 85040119182     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM111p0167     Document Type: Chapter

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