Large-scale properties and solar connection of the heliospheric current and plasma sheets: WIND observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1199-1202

  Lepping, Ronald P ^a   Szabo, Adam ^a   Peredo, Mauricio ^a,b   Hoeksema, J T ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA SHEATHS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MAGNETOMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACECRAFT; STATISTICS;

HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD MAGNITUDES; NORMAL DIRECTION; SCALE PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE MODELING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

MAGNETOPLASMA; GEOPHYSICS;

HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; PLASMA SHEET; WIND SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030141526     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00658     Document Type: Article

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