The interchange cycle: A fundamental mode of magnetic flux circulation for northward interplanetary magnetic field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Watanabe, Masakazu ^a   Sofko, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PATTERNS; DIPOLE TILT ANGLES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; IMF ORIENTATIONS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; RECIPROCAL CELLS; DIPOLE TILT ANGLE; IMF ORIENTATION; RECIPROCAL CELL;

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; MERGING; CELLS; CLOCKS; MAGNETISM;

INTERCHANGES; CYTOLOGY;

ASTROPHYSICS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 65249086868     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036682     Document Type: Article

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