Magnetospheric response to the solar wind as indicated by the cross-polar potential drop and the low-latitude asymmetric disturbance field

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 649-653

  Eriksson, S ^a   Blomberg, L G ^a   Ivchenko, N ^a   Karlsson, T ^a   Marklund, G T ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (electric fields and currents); Magnetospheric physics (solar wind magneto sphere interactions; plasma convection)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035634006     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-649-2001     Document Type: Article

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