Reconfiguration and closure of lobe flux by reconnection during northward IMF: Possible evidence for signatures in cusp/cleft auroral emissions

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 996-1011

  Lockwood, M ^a,b   Moen, J ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers; solar wind magnetosphere interactions); Space plasma physics (magnetic reconnection)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033414567     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0996-2     Document Type: Article

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