Detailed analysis of a substorm event on 6 and 7 June 1989: 2. Stepwise auroral bulge evolution during expansion phase

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A12, 2002, Pages

  Kadokura, Akira ^a   Yukimatu, Akira Sessai ^a   Ejiri, Masaki ^a   Oguti, Takasi ^b   Pinnock, Michael ^c   Sutcliffe, Peter R ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d HERMANUS MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

2704 Magnetospheric physics: Auroral pheaomena (2407); 2736 Magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; 2740 Magnetospheric physics: Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics; 2788 Magnetospheric physics: Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845735354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009129     Document Type: Article

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