Pulsating midmorning auroral arcs, filamentation of a mixing region in a flank boundary layer, and ULF waves observed during a Polar-Svalbard conjunction

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A12, 2000, Pages 27531-27553

  Farrugia, C J ^a   Sandholt, P E ^b   Maynard, N C ^c   Burke, W J ^d   Scudder, J D ^e   Ober, D M ^c   Moen, J ^f   Russell, C T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 39449132693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
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