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Rosenberg 1975
Rosenberg, R.L. (1975). Heliographic latitude dependence of the IMF dominant polarity in 1972-1973 using Pioneer 10 data. Journal of Geophysical Research 80: doi: 10.1029/JA080i010p01339. issn: 0148-0227.

The heliographic latitude dependence of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) was studied by using Pioneer 10 data taken from March 1972 through June 1973 over Bartels solar rotation (SR) periods 1896-1913. The daily IMF sector polarities were plotted for each of these SR periods. Then the number of days of positive polarity ('away' directed fields) per SR was plotted versus the average heliographic latitude. The dominant polarity behaved in accordance with the latitude effects found by Rosenberg and Coleman in 1969. The phase of the cycle has reversed from what it was prior to the sunspot maximum in 1968. The polarity is now predominantly positive at northern heliographic latitudes.

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