Importance of post-shock streams and sheath region as drivers of intense magnetospheric storms and high-latitude activity

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1729-1738

  Huttunen, K E J ^a   Koskinen, H E J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 2442496443     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-1729-2004     Document Type: Article

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