High Speed Stream Properties and Related Geomagnetic Activity During the Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI): 20 March to 16 April 2008

Solar Physics

Volumn 274, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 303-320

  Echer, E ^a   Tsurutani, B T ^a,b   Gonzalez, W D ^a   Kozyra, J U ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfv n waves; Geomagnetic activity; High speed streams; Nested variances; Solar cycle; Solar wind; Space weather; Whole heliosphere interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855307840     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-011-9739-0     Document Type: Article

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