The prelude to the deep minimum between solar cycles 23 and 24: Interplanetary scintillation signatures in the inner heliosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Janardhan, P ^a   Bisoi, Susanta Kumar ^a   Ananthakrishnan, S ^b   Tokumaru, M ^c   Fujiki, K ^c  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIOSPHERES; INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION; POLAR FIELDS; SOLAR CYCLE; TURBULENCE LEVEL;

SCINTILLATION;

ASTRONOMY; POLAR REGION; RADIO WAVE; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 80455164781     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049227     Document Type: Article

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