Solar-wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions in the Earth's plasma environment

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1802, 2003, Pages 113-126

  Cowley, S W H ^a   Davies, J A ^a   Grocott, A ^a   Khan, H ^a   Lester, M ^a   McWilliams, K A ^a   Milan, S E ^a   Provan, G ^a   Sandholt, P E ^b   Wild, J A ^a   Yeoman, T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ionosphere; Magnetosphere; Solar wind interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141923445     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1112     Document Type: Article

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