Global view of dayside magnetic reconnection with the dusk-dawn IMF orientation: A statistical study for Double Star and Cluster data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Pu, Z Y ^a,b   Zhang, X G ^a   Wang, X G ^a   Wang, Jue ^a   Zhou, X Z ^a,c   Dunlop, M W ^d   Xie, Lun ^a   Xiao, C J ^e   Zhong, QiuGang ^c   Fu, SuiYan ^a   Liu, Z X ^b   Carr, C M ^f   Ma, Z Wei ^g   Shen, C ^b   Lucek, E ^f   Rème, Henri ^h   Escoubet, Philippe ⁱ  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTER DATA; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF); MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOPAUSE BOUNDARY LAYERS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 37349068150     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030336     Document Type: Article

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