Motion of the dayside polar cap boundary during substorm cycles: II. Generation of poleward-moving events and polar cap patches by pulses in the magnetopause reconnection rate

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3513-3532

  Lockwood, M ^a,e   Davies, J A ^a   Moen, J ^c,f   van Eyken, A P ^c   Oksavik, K ^b,g   McCrea, I W ^a   Lester, M ^d  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Polar ionosphere); Magnetospheric physics (Magnetopause, cusp and boundary layers; Storms and substorms)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 30844433055     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-3513-2005     Document Type: Article

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