The magnetospheric driver of subauroral ion drifts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1625-1628

  De Keyser, J ^a   Roth, M ^a   Lemaire, J ^a  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE; IONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; THERMOELECTRICITY;

COMBINED EFFECT; ION DRIFTS; MAGNETOSPHERIC CURRENTS; SUBAURORAL ION DRIFTS; SUBSTORMS;

MAGNETOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

MAGNETOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; SUBAURORAL ION DRIFTS (SAID);

EID: 0032069781     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01135     Document Type: Article

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