Substorm onset location and the equatorward boundary of the proton auroral oval

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Jayachandran, P T ^a   MacDougall, J W ^a   Moorcroft, D R ^a   St Maurice, J P ^a   Liou, K ^b   Newell, P T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

AURORAL OVAL; GROUND BASED; INTERPLANETARY CONDITIONS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; SUBSTORM ONSET; SUBSTORMS; SUPERDARN;

LOCATION;

EID: 0037728903     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015484     Document Type: Article

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