The solar and interplanetary causes of the recent minimum in geomagnetic activity (MGA23): A combination of midlatitude small coronal holes, low IMF BZ variances, low solar wind speeds and low solar magnetic fields

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 839-849

  Tsurutani, B T ^a,b   Echer, E ^a   Gonzalez, W D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (Solar wind magnetosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 79956093147     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-29-839-2011     Document Type: Article

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