Reconnection at the dayside low-latitude magnetopause and its nonrole in low-latitude boundary layer formation during northward interplanetary magnetic field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Phan, Tai D ^a   Oieroset, Marit ^a   Fujimoto, Masaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FLUX; WIND EFFECTS;

ELECTRON ENERGY FLUX; ELECTRON PITCH ANGLE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF); LOW-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER (LLBL); LOW-LATITUDE MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOSHEATH FLOW;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 27544439679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023355     Document Type: Article

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