Automatic identification of magnetic clouds and cloud-like regions at 1 AU: occurrence rate and other properties

A scheme is presented whose purpose is twofold: (1) to enable the automatic identification of an interplanetary magnetic cloud (MC) passing Earth from real-time measurements of solar wind magnetic field and plasma quantities or (2) for on-ground post-data collection MC identification ("dete...

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Main Authors: R. P. Lepping, C.-C. Wu, D. B. Berdichevsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2005-10-01
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:https://www.ann-geophys.net/23/2687/2005/angeo-23-2687-2005.pdf