Post-noon two-minute period pulsating aurora and their relationship to the dayside convection pattern

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 877-891

  Milan, S E ^a   Yeoman, T K ^a   Lester, M ^a   Moen, J ^b   Sandholt, P E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; magnetopause, cusp, and boundary layers; MHD waves and instabilities)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033449327     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0877-8     Document Type: Article

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