Solar wind structure sources and periodicities of auroral electron power over three solar cycles

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 1157-1175

  Emery, Barbara A ^a   Richardson, Ian G ^b,c   Evans, David S ^d   Rich, Frederick J ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Air Force Geophysics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron auroral energy fluxes; Periodicities; Solar cycle variations; Solar wind speed structures

Indexed keywords

AURORAL ELECTRONS; CORONAL HOLE; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; HIGH-SPEED; PERIODICITIES; ROTATIONAL PERIODICITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR CYCLE VARIATIONS; SOLAR MAXIMA; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR WIND SPEED STRUCTURES; SOLAR WIND STRUCTURES; SOLAR WIND VELOCITY; TIME VARIATIONS;

ELECTRONS; SOLAR WIND; SPEED; STEEL POWDER METALLURGY; TRANSIENTS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 67649535002     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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