Periodic magnetospheric substorms and their relationship with solar wind variations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A6, 2003, Pages

  Huang, Chao Song ^a   Reeves, G D ^b   Borovsky, J E ^b   Skoug, R M ^b   Pu, Z Y ^c   Le, G ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic storm; Periodic substorm; Sawtooth injection; Solar wind triggering; Substorm

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644279384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009704     Document Type: Article

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