Magnetic structures inside boundary layers of magnetic clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Wei, Fengsi ^a   Liu, Rui ^a,b   Feng, Xueshang ^a   Zhong, Dingkun ^a   Yang, Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Interplanetary magnetic field; Magnetic clouds; Magnetic reconnection

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUN; VECTORS;

MAGNETIC CLOUDS; SOLAR WINDS;

GEOPHYSICS;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 1642617760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018116     Document Type: Article

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