Drop-off of the polar rain flux near the plasma sheet boundary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 102, Issue A2, 1997, Pages 2271-2278

  Shirai, H ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149051558     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JA02600     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Baker, D. N., S. J. Bame, W. C. Feldman, J. T. Gosling, and R. D. Zwickl, Strong electron bidirectional anisotropies in the distant tail: ISEE 3 observations of polar rain, J. Geophys. Res., , 91, 5637, 1986.
2. Baker, D. N., S. J. Bame, J. T. Gosling, and M. S. Gussenhoven, Observation of polar rain at low and high altitudes, J. Geophys. Res., , 92, 13547, 1987.
3. Fairfield, D. H., and J. D. Scudder, Polar rain: solar coronal electrons in the Earth's magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 4055, 1985.
4. Gussenhoven, M. S., and D. Madden, Monitoring the polar rain over a solar cycle: a polar rain index, J. Geophys. Res., , 95, 10399, 1990.
5. Gussenhoven, M. S., D. A. Hardy, N. Heinemann, and R. K. Burkhardt, Morphology of the polar rain, J. Geophys. Res., , 89, 9785, 1984.
6. Hones, E. W., Jr., Substorm processes in the magnetotail: Comments on "On hot taneous plasmas, fireballs, and boundary layers in the Earth's magnetotail" by L. A. Frank, K. L. Ackerson, and R. P. Lepping, J. Geophys. Res., , 82, 5633, 1977.
7. Meng, C.-I. and H. W. Kroehl, Intense uniform precipitation of low-energy electron over the polar cap, J. Geophys. Res., , 82, 2305, 1977.
8. Winningham, J. D., and W. J. Heikkila, Polar cap auroral electron fluxes observed with Isis 1, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 949, 1974.
9. Yeager, D. M. and L. A. Frank, Low-energy electron intensities at large distances over the Earth's polar cap, J. Geophys. Res., , 81, 3966, 1976.