On determining the noon polar cap boundary from SuperDARN HF radar backscatter characteristics

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1523-1530

  Pinnock, M ^a   Rodger, A S ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (ionosphere magnetosphere interactions; plasma convection); Magnetospheric physics (magnetopause, cusp, and boundary layers)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035606377     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005850000300     Document Type: Article

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