Small-scale, field-aligned currents at the top-side ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Neubert, Torsten ^a   Christiansen, Freddy ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ORBITS; SATELLITES; TURBULENCE; VECTORS;

POLAR ORBITS; SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE;

GEOPHYSICS;

CURRENT; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 17744414734     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017808     Document Type: Article

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