The location and rate of dayside reconnection during an interval of southward interplanetary magnetic field

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1467-1482

  Pinnock, M ^a   Chisham, G ^a   Coleman, I J ^a   Freeman, M P ^a   Hairston, M ^b   Villain, J P ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c LPCE CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers; magnetosphere ionosphere interactions); Space plasma physics (magnetic reconnection)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0037677717     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-1467-2003     Document Type: Article

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