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On the high correlation between long-term averages of solar wind speed and geomagnetic activity
Abstract
Six-month and yearly averages of solar-wind speed from 1962 to 1975 are shown to be highly correlated with geomagnetic activity as measured by averages of the Ap index. On the same time scale the correlation between the southward component of the interplanetary magnetic field and geomagnetic activity is poor. Previous studies with hourly averages gave opposite results. The better correlation with the southward component on an hourly time scale is explained by its large variation compared with the relatively constant solar-wind speed. However, on a yearly time scale the magnitude of the variations in both parameters are about the same. This problem can be solved by invoking an energy transfer mechanism which is proportional to the first power of the southward component and a higher power of the solar-wind speed.
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Newell, P. T., Sotirelis, T., Liou, K., Meng, C. ‐., & Rich, F. J. (2007) · Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics · doi:10.1029/2006ja012015 · Cited by 707
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- Authors
- Crooker, N. U., Feynman, J., & Gosling, J. T.
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 1977-05-01
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 1933-1937
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
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- W2043155625
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- 170
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- 0
- FWCI
- 12.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- closed
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