A nonlinear model for auroral density cavities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-92

  Shukla, Padma K ^a,b   Sakanaka, Paulo H ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

DISPERSIVE CONVECTIVE CELLS (DCC); SHORT-SCALE AURORAL DENSITY CAVITY (SSADC);

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY;

AURORA; MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0034352573     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010685     Document Type: Article

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