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A detailed analysis has been carried out to study the onset times of cosmic-ray decreases occurring during 1978–1982 with respect to the arrival times of interplanetary shocks and magnetic clouds. The observations demonstrate that shocks, magnetic clouds and a combination of both could effectively trigger a cosmic-ray decrease when they are associated with turbulent sheaths of maximum thickness ≤15.0 hr (≤0.15 AU). Further, the shocks associated with enhanced solar wind velocity produce a fast decrease and the magnetic clouds accompanied by extended and enhanced magnetic field produce a slow decrease. The decrease, non-correlated with the arrival times of shocks and magnetic clouds, represents a corotating cosmic-ray decrease produced by corotating streams.
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Ananth, A.G., Venkatesan, D. Effect of interplanetary shocks and magnetic clouds on onset of cosmic-ray decreases. Sol Phys 143, 373–383 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00646494
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