Observations of dayside convection reduction leading to substorm onset

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A3, 2003, Pages

  Lyons, L R ^a,b   Liu, S ^a,c   Ruohoniemi, J M ^a,d   Solovyev, S I ^a,b,c   Samson, J C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YU G SHAFER INSTITUTE OF COSMOPHYSICAL RESEARCH AND AERONOMY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convection; Substorm triggering; Substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242342429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009670     Document Type: Article

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