Direct observations of injection events of subauroral plasma into the polar cap

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Carlson, Herb C ^a   Moen, J ^b,c   Oksavik, K ^d   Nielsen, C P ^e   McCrea, I W ^f   Pedersen, T R ^a   Gallop, P ^f  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

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

^e NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOPLASMA; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PLASMA FLOW; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

MAGNETOPAUSE RECONNECTION; POLAR CAP; SUBAURORAL IONOSPHERIC PLASMA;

PLASMA THEORY;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOPAUSE; PLASMA;

EID: 33646364035     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025230     Document Type: Article

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