Estimates of magnetic cloud expansion at 1 AU

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1919-1933

  Lepping, R P ^a   Wu, C C ^a,b   Berdichevsky, D B ^a,c   Ferguson, T ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODELING; PLASMA;

EID: 47749087820     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-1919-2008     Document Type: Article

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