What is the best method to calculate the solar wind propagation delay?

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2383-2394

  Mailyan, B ^a   Munteanu, C ^b   Haaland, S ^c,d  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^b ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Max Planck Institute for Solar Systems   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAGNETOPAUSE; SOLAR WIND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 49149105138     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-2383-2008     Document Type: Article

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