A comparison of solar wind and ionospheric plasma contributions to the September 24-25, 1998 magnetic storm

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 212-222

  Peroomian, Vahé ^a   El Alaoui, Mostafa ^a   Abdalla, Maha Ashour ^a   Zelenyi, Lev M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ionospheric ions; Magnetic storms; Magnetospheric physics; Plasma sheet; Solar wind ion entry

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOLAR WIND;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC STORM; PARTICLE TRACING; PLASMA SHEET; RING CURRENT;

STORMS;

EID: 33847211819     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2006.07.025     Document Type: Article

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