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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
A large area (5 × 1010km2) of a coronal hole disappeared in concert with a transient brightening of a nearby high-latitude coronal arcade in the northern hemisphere on 15 May 1992. This coronal-hole disappearance took place in a time scale of half a day. It is suggested that the large-scale and quick change in coronal-hole geometry induced the eruption of originally closed coronal magnetic structure of the high-latitude arcade. An associated solar wind disturbance with the plasma speed of > 700 km/sec was observed by IPS, and geomagnetic sudden commencement was reported on 18 May 1992.