Global manifestations of a substorm onset observed by a multi-satellite and ground station network

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3491-3496

  Wang, H ^a,h   Ma, S Y ^a   Luhr H ^b   Liu, Z X ^c   Pu, Z Y ^d   Escoubet, C P ^e   Frey, H U ^f   Reme H ^g   Ritter, P ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ESA/ESTEC RSSD   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g IRAP   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTAIL;

EID: 33845920820     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-3491-2006     Document Type: Article

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