Sunspot numbers, interplanetary magnetic field, and cosmic ray intensity at earth: Nexus for the twentieth century

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2112-2118

  Ahluwalia, H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; IMF; Sunspot numbers

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TIME SERIES;

COSMIC RAY INTENSITY; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; INVERSE CORRELATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; SUNSPOT NUMBER; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 84888345516     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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