Bashful ballerina: Southward shifted heliospheric current sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Mursula, K ^a   Hiltula, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUN; MAGNETISM; ORBITS;

HELIOSHEETS; SOLAR DYNAMO; ASYMMETRIC COMPONENT; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; EARTH'S ORBIT; HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; SOLAR EQUATOR; SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS;

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0942267353     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018201     Document Type: Article

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