Motion of the dayside polar cap boundary during substorm cycles: I. Observations of pulses in the magnetopause reconnection rate

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3495-3511

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

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^f 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: 30844444001     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-3495-2005     Document Type: Article

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