Voyager 2 observations related to the October-November 2003 solar events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Burlaga, Leonard F ^a   Ness, N F ^b   Stone, E C ^c   McDonald, F B ^d   Richardson, J D ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMIC RAYS; PROTONS; SOLAR ENERGY;

COSMIC RAY INTENSITY; EJECTA FLOW; MERGED INTERACTION REGION (MIR); SOLAR ROTATIONS;

SHOCK WAVES;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 17744370721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021480     Document Type: Article

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