A review on the genesis of coronal mass ejections

Forbes, T. G., A review on the genesis of coronal mass ejections, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 23153-23166 (2000) (ADS)

The cartoon

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A typical example of the CSHKP genre, as applied to CMEs. This was so inspirational that it was colorized in later Archive entries. The paper in which this Forbes cartoon appears provides a good systematic overview of CME origins within this particular framework. When the Archivist read this paper he admired the fact that attention was being properly paid to the Aly-Sturrock problem, but was not so convinced that the theory has reached any concrete conclusions here.

Date: 2005 July 02

Update: 2019 November 21