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Systematic Diurnal Variations in the Period and Polarization of Magnetic Micropulsations in South-west England

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GEOMAGNETIC micro-pulsations are considered to provide indirect evidence of the existence of hydromagnetic waves generated at the magnetosphere boundary and propagated towards the Earth as Alfvén waves. Dungey1 and Jacobs and Westphal2 have made predictions, based on theoretical studies, regarding the dependence of the period of these waves on latitude and on their state of polarization. There is, however, no general agreement among observers that this dependence on latitude does exist. Not enough work has been done as yet on the polarization of these waves to warrant a comparison between theory and observation.

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    C. N. C. NWAIGWE, S. H. HALL & M. J. USHER

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NWAIGWE, C., HALL, S. & USHER, M. Systematic Diurnal Variations in the Period and Polarization of Magnetic Micropulsations in South-west England. Nature 214, 1319–1321 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141319a0

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