Auroral pulsations and accompanying VLF emissions

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-78

  Tagirov, V R ^a   Ismagilov, V S ^a   Titova, E E ^a   Arinin, V A ^b   Perlikov, A M ^a   Manninen, J ^c   Turunen, T ^c   Kaila, K ^d  

^a POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN FEDERAL NUCLEAR CENTER VNIIEF   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; magnetosphere ionosphere interactions); Space plasma physics (wave particle interactions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033475666     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0066-9     Document Type: Article

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