Conjugate observations of the day-side reconnection electric field: A GEM boundary layer campaign

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 443-454

  Pinnock, M ^a   Rodger, A S ^a   Baker, K B ^b   Lu, G ^c   Hairston, M ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (plasma convection; polar ionosphere); Magnetospheric physics (magnetosphereionosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006611736     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0443-4     Document Type: Article

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