Influence of the solar wind dynamic pressure on the decay and injection of the ring current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A9, 2003, Pages

  Wang, C B ^a,c   Chao, J K ^a   Lin, C H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Dst index; Forecasting; Ring current; Solar wind magnetospheric interactions; Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645649199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009851     Document Type: Article

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