Antiparallel magnetic merging signatures during IMF B Y>>0: Longitudinal and latitudinal cusp aurora bifurcations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2299-2311

  Massetti, S ^a  

^a INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; BIFURCATION; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOPAUSE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 33751086156     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-2299-2006     Document Type: Article

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