Detailed analysis of a substorm event on 6 and 7 June 1989 1. Growth phase evolution of nightside auroral activities and ionospheric convection toward expansion phase onset

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A12, 2002, Pages

  Kadokura, Akira ^a   Yukimatu, Akira Sessai ^a   Ejiri, Masaki ^a   Oguti, Takasi ^b   Pinnock, Michael ^c   Hairston, Marc R ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

2704 magnetospheric physics: Auroral phenomena (2407); 2736 magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; 2760 magnetospheric physics: Plasma convection; 2788 magnetospheric physics: Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644364545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009127     Document Type: Article

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