A fresh perspective of the substorm current system and its dynamo

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Lui, A T Y ^a   Kamide, Y ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES;

SUBSTORM CURRENT SYSTEM; AZIMUTHAL CURRENT; DIPOLARIZATION; DYNAMO ACTION; KINETIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; SUBSTORMS; TOTAL CURRENT;

GEOPHYSICS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

MAGNETOSPHERE; STORM;

EID: 0347542596     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017835     Document Type: Article

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