A pseudo-breakup observation: Localized current wedge across the postmidnight auroral oval

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A1, 2003, Pages

  Partamies, N ^a,b   Amm, O ^a   Kauristie, K ^a   Pulkkinen, T I ^a   Tanskanen, E ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

2407 Ionosphere: Auroral ionosphere (2704); 2431 Ionosphere: Ionosphere magnetosphere interactions (2736); 2437 Ionosphere: Ionospheric dynamics; 2784 Magnetospheric physics: Solar wind magnetosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947182392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009276     Document Type: Article

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