WIND, GEOTAIL, and GOES 9 observations of magnetic field dipolarization and bursty bulk flows in the near-tail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 971-974

  Slavin, J A ^a   Fairfield, D H ^a   Lepping, R P ^a   Szabo, A ^a   Reiner, M J ^a   Kaiser, M ^a   Owen, C J ^b   Phan, T ^c   Lin, R ^c   Kokubun, S ^d   Mukai, T ^e   Yamamoto, T ^e   Singer, H J ^f   Romanov, S A ^g   Buechner, J ^h   Iyemori, T ⁱ   Rostoker, G ^j  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

ⁱ KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE; SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA SHEATHS; SOLAR RADIATION;

BURSTY BULK FLOW; DIPOLARIZATION; DOWNSTREAM DISTANCES; FIELD COMPONENTS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; MAGNETIC FLUX TRANSPORT; SUBSTORM EXPANSION; SUBSTORMS;

ORBITS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

SUBSTORMS;

EID: 0031120243     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00542     Document Type: Article

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