Multi-instrument mapping of the small-scale flow dynamics related to a cusp auroral transient

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2657-2670

  Oksavik, Kjellmar ^a,b   Moen, J ^a,c   Carlson, H C ^d   Greenwald, R A ^b   Milan, S E ^e   Lester, M ^e   Denig, W F ^f   Barnes, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^d AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Plasma convection); Magnetospheric physics (Current systems; Magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers)

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 28044467546     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-2657-2005     Document Type: Article

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