Stationary magnetospheric convection on November 24, 1981. 1. A case study of "pressure gradient/minimum-B" auroral arc generation

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 358-374

  Galperin, Y I ^a   Bosqued, J M ^b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; magnetospheric configuration and a dynamics; plasma sheet)

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844358822     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005850050765     Document Type: Article

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