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SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 124, Issue 1-4, Pages 51-76Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-006-9099-5
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corona; solar wind; high-speed streams; streamers; differential rotation; coronal mass ejections (CMEs); solar activity cycle
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In this paper I will briefly summarize the present status of our knowledge on the four different sorts of solar wind, their sources and their short- and long-term variations. First: the fast solar wind in high-speed streams that emerges from coronal hole regions. Second: the slow solar wind emerging from the non-active Sun near the global heliospheric current sheet above helmet streamers and underlying active regions. Third: the slow solar wind filling most of the heliosphere during high solar activity, emerging above active regions in a highly turbulent state, and fourth: the plasma expelled from the Sun during coronal mass ejections. The coronal sources of these different flows vary dramatically with the solar activity cycle.
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