Response of the magnetospheric convection to sudden interplanetary magnetic field changes as deduced from the evolution of partial ring currents

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Hashimoto, Kumiko K ^a   Kikuchi, Takashi ^a   Ebihara, Yusuke ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

DP2 magnetic perturbation; Ionospheric convection; Magnetic field at low latitude; Magnetospheric convection; Partial ring current

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548800755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009228     Document Type: Article

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