Spatial distribution of conductances and currents associated with a north-south auroral form during a multiple-substorm period

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1385-1396

  Amm, O ^a   Pajunpaa A ^a   Brandstrom U ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; electric fields and currents); Magnetospheric physics (magnetosphere ionosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033441621     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-1385-6     Document Type: Article

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