A statistical study on the geoeffectiveness of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from March 1997 to December 2000

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Wang, Y M ^a,b   Ye, P Z ^b   Wang, S ^b   Zhou, G P ^a,c   Wang, J X ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CME; Geomagnetic storm

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549148163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009244     Document Type: Article

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