Unusual declining phase of solar cycle 23: Weak semi-annual variations of auroral hemispheric power and geomagnetic activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Luan, Xiaoli ^a   Wang, Wenbin ^a   Burns, Alan G ^a   Solomon, Stanley C ^a   Zhang, Yongliang ^b   Paxton, Larry J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; DYNAMIC PRESSURES; GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODULATION EFFECTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR CYCLE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR WIND;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; AURORA; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 67649545127     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040825     Document Type: Article

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