Ultraviolet insolation drives seasonal and diurnal space weather variations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A10, 2002, Pages

  Newell, Patrick T ^a   Sotirelis, Thomas ^a   Skura, Joseph P ^a   Meng, Ching I ^a   Lyatsky, Wladislav ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora; Coupling; Insolation; Ionosphere; Magnetosphere; Seasonal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003219293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA000296     Document Type: Article

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