Localized reconnection and substorm onset on Dec. 22, 1996

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3545-3548

  Ashour Abdalla, Maha ^a,b   El Alaoui, Mostafa ^b   Peroomian, Vahé ^c   Walker, Raymond J ^d   Zelenyi, Lev M ^d   Frank, Louis A ^d   Paterson, William R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF); SOLAR WIND; SUBSTORM;

GEOPHYSICS;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0033507861     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003630     Document Type: Article

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