Quantitative magnetotail characteristics of different magnetospheric states

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1019-1032

  Shukhtina, M A ^a   Dmitrieva, N P ^a   Sergeev, V A ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics; Magnetotail; Solar wind magnetosphere interactions; Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 1942536098     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-1019-2004     Document Type: Article

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