Solar Wind Variations Related to Fluctuations of the North Atlantic Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2002, Pages

  Boberg, Fredrik ^a   Lundstedt, Henrik ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE;

ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISTURBANCES; GLOBAL ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRESSURE SYSTEM; SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS; SUNSPOT NUMBER; WIND VARIATION;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0036705360     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL014903     Document Type: Article

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