Temporal and spatial structures of flickering aurora derived from high-speed imaging photometer observations at Syowa Station in the Antarctic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A1, 2004, Pages

  Sakanoi, Kazuyo ^a,b   Fukunishi, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aurora emission; Electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves; Field aligned electron bursts; Flickering aurora; Imaging photometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444282937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010081     Document Type: Article

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