Electric fields and currents of stable drifting auroral arcs in the evening sector

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A12, 2002, Pages

  Aikio, A T ^a   Lakkala, T ^a,b   Kozlovsky, A ^b   Williams, P J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auroral arc; Electric fields; Ionospheric currents; Magnetosphere ionosphere coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649095353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009172     Document Type: Article

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