A comparison of coronal mass ejections identified by manual and automatic methods

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3103-3112

  Yashiro, S ^a,b   Michalek, G ^a,b,c   Gopalswamy, N ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAL MASS EJECTION; LATITUDE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

CACTACEAE;

EID: 54249128328     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-3103-2008     Document Type: Article

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