Seasonal and local time dependences of the interhemispheric field-aligned currents deduced from the Ørsted satellite and the ground geomagnetic observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Yamashita, S ^a   Iyemori, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2409 ionosphere: Current systems (2708); 2431 ionosphere: Ionospherc magnetosphere interactions (2736); 2437 ionosphere: Ionospheric dynamics; 2443 ionosphere: Midlatitude ionosphere; 2736 magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244408696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009414     Document Type: Article

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