Monitoring the auroral electrojet from polar cap stations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Lyatsky, W ^a   Tan, Arjun ^a   Lyatskaya, Sonya ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA; ELECTROJET; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MONITORING; POLAR REGION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 33947520337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010989     Document Type: Article

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