Association of Pi2 pulsations and pulsed reconnection: Ground and Cluster observations in the tail lobe at 16 RE

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3433-3449

  Keiling, A ^a   Fujimoto, M ^b   Hasegawa, H ^c   Honary, F ^d   Sergeev, V ^e   Semenov, V S ^e   Frey, H U ^a   Amm, O ^f   Reme H ^g   Dandouras, I ^g   Lucek, E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g IRAP   (France)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; POLARIZATION;

EID: 33845952543     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-3433-2006     Document Type: Article

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