MHD description of the dynamical relationships between a flux rope, streamer, coronal mass ejection, and magnetic cloud: An analysis of the January 1997 Sun-Earth connection event

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A7, 1999, Pages 14789-14801

  Wu, S T ^a,d   Guo, W P ^a,d   Michels, D J ^b   Burlaga, L F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Center for Plasma and Aeronomic Research Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Alabama in Huntsville ^*  (United States)

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