CUTLASS Finland radar observations of the ionospheric signatures of flux transfer events and the resulting plasma flows

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1411-1422

  Provan, G ^a   Yeoman, T K ^a   Milan, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers; magnetosphere Ionosphere interaction)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003452744     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-1411-0     Document Type: Article

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