Stability of the high-latitude reconnection site for steady northward IMF

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 473-476

  Fuselier, S A ^a   Petrinec, S M ^a   Trattner, K J ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMAS; PROTONS; SPACECRAFT; STABILITY; WIND;

EARTH MAGNETOSPHERIC CUSP; HIGH LATITUDE RECONNECTION SITE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSHEATH; POLAR SPACECRAFT; SOLAR WIND;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0034353434     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003706     Document Type: Article

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