Solar and auroral evidence for an intense recurrent geomagnetic s torm during December in AD 1128

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 289-302

  Willis, D M ^a,b,c   Stephenson, F R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; storms and substorms); Solar physics, astrophysics and astronomy (photosphere and chromosphere)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035588539     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-289-2001     Document Type: Article

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