Unusually long lasting multiple penetration of interplanetary electric field to equatorial ionosphere under oscillating IMF Bz

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Wei, Yong ^a,b,c   Hong, Minghua ^a   Wan, Weixing ^a   Du, Aimin ^a   Lie, Jiuhou ^d   Zhao, Biqiang ^a   Wang, Wenbin ^d   Ren, Zhipeng ^a,b,c   Yue, Xinan ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METEOROLOGY;

DISCONTINUOUS MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; INTERPLANETARY ELECTRIC FIELD; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

ELECTRIC FIELD; INTERPLANETARY DUST; IONOSPHERE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

JICAMARCA; LIMA [PERU]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 40849083808     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032305     Document Type: Article

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