Pressure-pulse interaction with the magnetosphere and ionosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A2, 2003, Pages

  Sibeck, D G ^a   Trivedi, N B ^b   Zesta, E ^c   Decker, R B ^d,h   Singer, H J ^e   Szabo, A ^a   Tachihara, H ^f   Watermann, J ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Laboratório de Ciências Espaciais de Santa Maria   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pressure pulses; Traveling convection vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242882426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009675     Document Type: Article

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