Articles | Volume 32, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-32-309-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-32-309-2025
Research article
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10 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 10 Sep 2025

Exploring complexity measures for analysis of solar wind structures and streams

Venla Koikkalainen, Emilia Kilpua, Simon Good, and Adnane Osmane

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We study time series of solar wind large-scale structures (magnetic clouds, sheaths, slow and fast streams). These have profound importance with regard to causing disturbances in the heliospheric conditions and driving space weather on Earth. The used techniques include methods derived from information theory to determine entropy and complexity. We find that all of these techniques show stochastic fluctuations, but magnetic clouds stand out due to their coherent magnetic field.
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