Substorm onset by plasma sheet divergence

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A12, 2003, Pages

  Lyons, L R ^a   Wang, C P ^a   Nagai, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aurora; Geomagnetic tail; Magnetosphere ionosphere coupling; Plasma sheet; Substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746349323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010178     Document Type: Article

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