Observations and model predictions of substorm auroral asymmetries in the conjugate hemispheres

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Østgaard, Nikolai ^a   Tsyganenko, N A ^c   Mende, S B ^b   Frey, H U ^b   Immel, T J ^b   Fillingim, M ^b   Frank, L A ^d   Sigwarth, J B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AURORAL ASSYMETRIES; EMPIRICAL MAGNETOSPHERIC MODELS; IMAGE-FUV INSTRUMENTS; IMF ORIENTATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

AURORA; MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 20444431544     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022166     Document Type: Article

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