STEREO and wind observations of a fast ICME flank triggering a prolonged geomagnetic storm on 5-7 April 2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Mostl C ^a   Temmer, M ^a   Rollett, T ^a,b   Farrugia, C J ^c   Liu, Y ^d   Veronig, A M ^b   Leitner, M ^e   Galvin, A B ^c   Biernat, H K ^a,b  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; SOLAR SYSTEM; STORMS;

AVERAGE SPEED; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; GROWTH PHASE; IMAGERS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MAGNETIC CLOUDS; NEAR-EARTH; SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORIES; WIND SPACECRAFT;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

COLLISION; GEOMAGNETISM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACECRAFT; STEREO IMAGE; STORM; TRAJECTORY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 78650455034     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045175     Document Type: Article

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