A doubling of the Sun's coronal magnetic field during the past 100 years

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6735, 1999, Pages 437-439

  Lockwood, M ^a   Stamper, R ^a   Wild, M N ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; WIND;

EID: 0033519738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20867     Document Type: Article

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