Detailed dayside auroral morphology as a function of local time for southeast IMF orientation: Implications for solar wind-magnetosphere coupling

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3537-3560

  Sandholt, P E ^a   Farrugia, C J ^b   Denig, W F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena: magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers; solar wind magnetosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

AURORA; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 10844284457     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-3537-2004     Document Type: Article

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