Near-earth solar wind flows and related geomagnetic activity during more than four solar cycles (1963-2011)

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Richardson, Ian G ^a,b   Cane, Hilary V ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (CME); Interplanetary medium; Solar cycle; Stream

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879479867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21157251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2012003     Document Type: Article

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