High-latitude poynting flux from combined Iridium and SuperDARN data

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2861-2875

  Waters, C L ^a   Anderson, B J ^b   Greenwald, R A ^b   Barnes, R J ^b   Ruohoniemi, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (instruments and techniques); Magnetospheric physics (current systems: magnetosphere ionosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 6044224761     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-2861-2004     Document Type: Article

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