High-altitude energy source(s) for stable auroral red arcs

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-190

  Kozyra, J U ^a   Nagy, A F ^a   Slater, D W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; AURORA; AURORAL RED ARC; ENERGY SOURCE;

EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HEAVY IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SLOW LIGHT; TRAPPED IONS;

EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; INTERACTION REGION; IONOSPHERIC PLASMAS; MAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; NEAR-EARTH SPACES; SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; STABLE AURORAL RED ARCS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 0031407328     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RG03194     Document Type: Article

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