Properties of magnetic clouds and geomagnetic storms associated with eruption of coronal sigmoids

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A9, 2002, Pages

  Leamon, Robert J ^a   Canfield, Richard C ^a   Pevtsov, Alexei A ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal mass ejections; Magnetic clouds; Magnetic storms; Sigmoids; Sun earth interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141983371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA000313     Document Type: Article

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