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Wave Energy Dissipation in the Solar Atmosphere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Abstract
There are two regions of rapid dissipation when Alfvén waves propagate from the transition region to the corona. They occur respectively in a range of several hundred kilometers above the base of the transition region and in the corona at about 1-3Ro. The heating of the atmosphere by wave dissipation could be one order of magnitude larger than heat conduction in the coronal part with a lower temperature and density and stronger magnetic field. Wave heating could also become more important when the magnetic field divergence becomes stronger.
- Type
- VI. Chromospheric and Coronal Heating
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 142: Basic Plasma Processes on the Sun , 1990 , pp. 266 - 267
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1990