Dual spacecraft observations of lobe magnetic field perturbations before, during and after plasmoid release

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2897-2900

  Slavin, J A ^a   Hesse, M ^a   Owen, C J ^b   Taguchi, S ^c   Fairfield, D H ^a   Lepping, R P ^a   Kokubun, S ⁱ   Mukai, T ^d   Lui, A T Y ^e   Anderson, R R ^f   Matsumoto, H ^g   Sutcliffe, P R ^h  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h HERMANUS MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

ⁱ Astronomy Unit ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPACECRAFT;

GEOTAIL; PLASMOIDS;

RADIATION BELTS; MAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

DATA SET; GEOTAIL OBSERVATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD PERTURBATIONS; MAGNETIC FLUX TUBE; PLASMOID; SUBSTORMS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRAVELING COMPRESSION REGIONS;

EID: 0033208552     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL9003606     Document Type: Article

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