Interhemispheric asymmetries in the occurrence of magnetically conjugate sub-auroral polarisation streams

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1371-1390

  Parkinson, M L ^a   Pinnock, M ^b   Wild, J A ^c   Lester, M ^c   Yeoman, T K ^c   Milan, S E ^c   Ye, H ^a   Devlin, J C ^a   Frey, H U ^d   Kikuchi, T ^e  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Auroral ionosphere; electric fields and currents; ionosphere magnetosphere interactions); Magnetospheric physics (Storms and substorms)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 23744516080     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-1371-2005     Document Type: Article

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