Strong localized variations of the low-altitude energetic electron fluxes in the evening sector near the plasmapause

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-33

  Titova, E E ^a   Yahnina, T A ^a   Yahnin, A G ^a   Gvozdevsky, B B ^a   Lyubchich, A A ^a   Trakhtengets, V Yu ^b   Demekhov, A G ^b   Horwitz, J L ^c   Lefeuvre, F ^d   Lagoutte, D ^d   Manninen, J ^e   Turunen, T ^e  

^a POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d LPCE CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (particle precipitation; wave particle interaction) magnetospheric physics (plasmasphere)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542444211     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-997-0025-2     Document Type: Article

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