Average characteristics of triggered and nontriggered substorms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A7, 2004, Pages

  Hsu, Tung Shin ^a   McPherron, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

IMF; Substorm; Triggering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746359728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009933     Document Type: Article

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