Solar wind disturbances responsible for geomagnetic storms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A3, 2003, Pages

  Lyatsky, W ^a   Tan, A ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2134 Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary magnetic fields; 2164 Interplanetary Physics: Solar wind plasma; 2784 Magnetospheric Physics: Solar wind magnetosphere interactions; 2788 Magnetospheric Physics: Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845644339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA005057     Document Type: Article

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