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Table 1

Criteria used to define ICMEs and SIRs.

ICME SIR
B Enhanced and smoothly rotating Compressed with a maximum during the velocity increase
V Monotonically decreasing Increasing
N p Compressed in the earliest part of the velocity increase
T Low Increasing
β Low
Downstream/upstream region Possibly preceded by a sheath and a shock Possibly followed by a HSS region

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