Dayside flow bursts in the Earth's outer magnetosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A3, 2004, Pages

  Chen, S H ^a,b   Moore, T E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic field line merging; Magnetopause; Magnetosphere ionosphere coupling; Plasma instabilities; Reconnection; Solar wind magnetosphere interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244292943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010007     Document Type: Article

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