The importance of a dark ionosphere for ion heating and auroral arc formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1635-1638

  Hamrin, Maria ^a   André, Mats ^a   Norqvist, Patrik ^a   Rönnmark, Kjell ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA DENSITY; SATELLITES; IONOSPHERE; IONS; PLASMA HEATING;

AURORAL ARC FORMATION; CORRECTED GEOMAGNETIC LATITUDE; ION HEATING; MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME;

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

AMBIENT DENSITY; ASSOCIATED DENSITIES; AURORAL ARCS; DENSITY REDUCTION; ENERGIZATION; ION HEATING; LOW DENSITY; SOLAR ILLUMINATION;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0034352876     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL003758     Document Type: Article

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