Scaling in long term data sets of geomagnetic indices and solar wind ε as seen by WIND spacecraft

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Hnat, B ^a   Chapman, S C ^a   Rowlands, G ^a   Watkins, N W ^b   Freeman, M P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MAGNETOSPHERE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPACECRAFT; GEOMAGNETISM; SOLAR WIND;

SOLAR WIND; STANDARD DEVIATION;

GEOMAGNETISM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

SOLAR WIND;

GEOMAGNETIC INDICES; MAGNETOSPHERIC ACTIVITY; SCALING EXPONENT; SELF-SIMILAR; SOLAR WIND DRIVERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; WIND SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0942267345     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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