Double flux-rope magnetic cloud in the solar wind at 1 AU

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Hu, Qiang ^a   Smith, Charles W ^a   Ness, Norman F ^a   Skoug, Ruth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND; MAGNETISM; ROPE; SOLAR WIND;

SOLAR WIND; ADVANCED COMPOSITION; CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; FLUX ROPES; GRAD-SHAFRANOV RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC CLOUDS; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING; PLASMA MEASUREMENT; X-POINT;

GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETOPLASMA;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0141594959     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016653     Document Type: Article

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