CUTLASS HF radar observations of high-latitude azimuthally propagating vortical currents in the nightside ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 640-652

  Wild, J A ^a   Yeoman, T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; electric fields and currents); Magnetospheric physics (storms and substorms)

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542442422     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0640-7     Document Type: Article

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