High-latitude irregularities of the magnetospheric electric field and their relation to solar wind and geomagnetic conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A1, 2002, Pages

  Golovchanskaya, I V ^a   Maltsev, Y P ^a   Ostapenko, A A ^a  

^a POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

2411 ionosphere: Electric fields (2712); 2712 magnetospheric physics: Electric fields (2411); 2736 magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; 2784 magnetospheric physics: Solar wind magnetosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747152879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA900097     Document Type: Article

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