The solar wind plasma density control of night-time auroral particle precipitation

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1047-1052

  Vorobjev, V G ^a   Rezhenov, B V ^a   Yagodkina, O I ^a  

^a POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere, particle precipitation); Magnetospheric physics (solar wind magnetosphere interaction)

Indexed keywords

AURORA; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 1942536095     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-1047-2004     Document Type: Article

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