Auroral electrojet dynamics during magnetic storms, connection with plasma precipitation and large-scale structure of the magnetospheric magnetic field

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 497-507

  Feldstein, Y I ^a   Gromova, L I ^a   Grafe, A ^b   Meng, C I ^c   Kalegaev, V V ^d   Alexeev, I I ^d   Sumaruk, Y P ^e  

^a PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e Lvov Magnetic Observatory   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (particle precipitation), Magnetospheric physics (current systems; magnetospheric configuration and dynamics)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033440016     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0497-3     Document Type: Article

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