The ionospheric heating beneath the magnetospheric cleft revisited

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 827-830

  Prolss G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Polar ionosphere; Plasma temperature and density); Magnetospheric physics (Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 18744410071     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-827-2005     Document Type: Article

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