Identification of the magnetic cloud boundary layers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A6, 2003, Pages

  Wei, Fengsi ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Fan, Quanlin ^a   Feng, Xueshang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Magnetic clouds; Magnetic reconnection

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642597626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009511     Document Type: Article

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