Latitudinal structure of the heliospheric current sheet and corotating streams measured by WIND and ULYSSES

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 915-918

  Ho, C M ^a   Tsurutani, B T ^a   Arballo, J K ^a   Goldstein, B E ^a   Lepping, R P ^b   Ogilvie, K W ^b   Lazarus, A J ^c   Steinberg, J T ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLAR WIND; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PLASMAS;

ANGULAR DISTANCE; HELIOCENTRIC RADIAL DISTANCE; HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; LATITUDINAL STRUCTURES; SOLAR WIND VELOCITY; SURFACE MAGNETIC FIELD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VELOCITY CHANGES;

LOCATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0031125599     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00806     Document Type: Article

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