Estimated errors in magnetic cloud model fit parameters with force-free cylindrically symmetric assumptions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A10, 2003, Pages

  Lepping, R P ^a   Berdichevsky, D B ^b   Ferguson, T J ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EER Systems Inc   (United States)

^c Linganore High School   (United States)

Author keywords

Force free; Magnetic clouds; Magnetic fields; Solar wind; WIND

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746367819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009657     Document Type: Article

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