Prevalence of magnetic reconnection at small field shear angles in the solar wind

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Gosling, Jack T ^a   Phan, T D ^b   Lin, R P ^b   Szabo, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMAS; SPACECRAFT;

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; SHEAR ANGLES;

SOLAR WIND;

MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR WIND; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 34948855932     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030706     Document Type: Article

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