Seasonal, Kp, solar wind, and solar flux variations in long-term single-pass satellite estimates of electron and ion auroral hemispheric power

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Emery, Barbara A ^a   Coumans, Valérie ^b   Evans, David S ^c   Germany, Glynn A ^d   Greer, M Sue ^c,h   Holeman, Ernest ^e   Kadinsky Cade, Katharine ^f   Rich, Frederick J ^f,g   Xu, Weibin ^a,h  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^e BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^f AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h University of Alabama at Huntsville Technology Hall S131 ^*  (United States)

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EID: 50249085185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012866     Document Type: Article

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