Two-spacecraft reconstruction of a magnetic cloud and comparison to its solar source

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3139-3152

  Mostl C ^a,b   Miklenic, C ^a   Farrugia, C J ^c   Temmer, M ^b,d   Veronig, A ^a   Galvin, A B ^c   Vrsnak B ^d   Biernat, H K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTH; MAGNETIC FIELD; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 54249092421     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-3139-2008     Document Type: Article

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