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Some Properties of the Solar Granulation and Mesogranulation

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Motions in the Solar Atmosphere

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Based on a 8.7 hour time series of solar granulation images (Simon et al., 1994), of a spatial resolution mostly better than 400 km, we calculated some properties of granules, vorticity and divergence of the velocity fields and we tried to determine the mesogranular pattern by corks.

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Mühlmann, W., Hanslmeier, A., Brandt, P.N. (1999). Some Properties of the Solar Granulation and Mesogranulation. In: Hanslmeier, A., Messerotti, M. (eds) Motions in the Solar Atmosphere. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 239. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9331-1_14

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