The source population for the Cusp and Cleft/LLBL for southward IMF

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1665-1668

  Fuselier, S A ^a,c   Lockwood, M ^b   Onsager, T G ^a,b,c   Peterson, W K ^a,c  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA SHEATHS; PLASMA SOURCES;

CLEFT; CUSP; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; MAGNETOSHEATH ION DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETOSPHERIC CONVECTION;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

PLASMA;

EID: 0033563596     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900354     Document Type: Article

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