Auroral streamers: Characteristics of associated precipitation, convection and field-aligned currents

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 537-548

  Sergeev, V A ^a   Liou, K ^b   Newell, P T ^b   Ohtani, S I ^b   Hairston, M R ^c   Rich, F ^d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (electric fiels and currents); Magnetospheric physics (aurroal phenomena; energetic particles, precipitating)

Indexed keywords

AURORA; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA;

EID: 1342310026     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-537-2004     Document Type: Article

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