Antisunward net Birkeland current system deduced from the Oersted satellite observation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A9, 2002, Pages

  Yamashita, S ^a   Iyemori, T ^a   Nakano, S ^a   Kamei, T ^a   Araki, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birkeland currents; Field aligned currents; Oersted satellite; Partial ring current; Ring current

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549143830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA900160     Document Type: Article

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