Stormtime observations of the flux of plasmaspheric ions to the dayside cusp/magnetopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Foster, J C ^a   Coster, A J ^a   Erickson, P J ^a   Rich, F J ^b   Sandel, B R ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; IONS; PLASMAS; SATELLITES;

PLASMASPHERES; SUNWARD FLUX;

GEOPHYSICS;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 3042790054     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020082     Document Type: Article

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