Study of the longitudinal expansion velocity of the substorm current wedge

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1423-1433

  Belehaki, A ^a   Tsagouri, I ^a,b   Mavromichalaki, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (current systems; magnetosphere ionosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542421267     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-1423-9     Document Type: Article

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