A study of the expansion and distortion of the cross section of magnetic clouds in the interplanetary medium

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A8, 2003, Pages

  Hidalgo, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coronal mass ejections; Magnetic clouds

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244247940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009818     Document Type: Article

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