The accuracy of using the spectral width boundary measured in off-meridional SuperDARN HF radar beams as a proxy for the open-closed field line boundary

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2599-2604

  Chisham, G ^a   Freeman, M P ^a   Sotirelis, T ^b   Greenwald, R A ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Instruments and techniques; Plasma convection); Magnetospheric physics (Magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

ANSER SP.;

EID: 27844486061     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-2599-2005     Document Type: Article

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