Statistical identification of solar wind origins of magnetic impulse events

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A12, 2003, Pages

  Kataoka, Ryuho ^a   Fukunishi, Hiroshi ^a   Lanzerotti, Louis J ^b,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Dayside magnetosphere; Solar wind discontinuities; Traveling convection vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744460564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010202     Document Type: Article

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