Statistics of the mid-altitude cusp observed by Polar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Rae, I J ^a,b   Lester, M ^a   Davies, J A ^a   Milan, S E ^a   Fenrich, F R ^b   Fritz, T A ^c   Scudder, J D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MAGNETOSPHERE; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS;

IMF ORIENTATION; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; ION INJECTION; LOW LATITUDES; MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMAS; NORTHWARD IMF; SPACE MISSIONS; STATISTICAL STUDY;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0037092370     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013371     Document Type: Article

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