Cluster multispacecraft determination of AKR angular beaming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Mutel, Robert L ^a   Christopher, Ivar W ^a   Pickett, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; OPTICS; RHENIUM; SPACECRAFT; VECTORS;

(1 1 1) ORIENTATION; A PLANE; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ANGULAR BEAMING; AURORAL OVALS; BEAMING PATTERN; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LATITUDE (CO); MAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OBSERVER (OBS); POLAR CAPS; SOURCE LOCATIONS; TANGENT PLANES;

LOCATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH DETERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPACECRAFT; VECTOR;

EID: 45549088900     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033377     Document Type: Article

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