Auroral poleward boundary intensifications and tail bursty flows: A manifestation of a large-scale ULF oscillation?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Lyons, L R ^a   Zesta, E ^a   Xu, Y ^a   Sanchez E R ^b   Samson, J C ^c   Reeves, G D ^d   Ruohoniemi, J M ^e   Sigwarth, J B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; Poleward boundary intensifications; Tail flows; ULF pulsations

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549132084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA000242     Document Type: Article

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