Dayside convection and auroral morphology during an interval of northward interplanetary magnetic field

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 436-444

  Milan, S E ^a   Lester, M ^a   Cowley, S W H ^a   Brittnacher, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; magnetopause, cusp, and boundary layers; plasma convection)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034386462     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0436-9     Document Type: Article

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