Multi-instrument observations of the ionospheric counterpart of a bursty bulk flow in the near-Earth plasma sheet

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1061-1075

  Grocott, A ^a   Yeoman, T K ^a   Nakamura, R ^b   Cowley, S W H ^a   Frey, H U ^c   Reme H ^d   Klecker, B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d IRAP   (France)

^e MPI F Extraterrestrische Physik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; ionosphere magnetosphere interactions; plasma convection)

Indexed keywords

AURORA; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA;

EID: 2442520420     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-1061-2004     Document Type: Article

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