Statistical visualization of the earth's magnetotail based on geotail data and the implied substorm model

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1035-1046

  Machida, S ^a   Miyashita, Y ^b   Ieda, A ^c   Nose M ^a   Nagata, D ^a   Liou, K ^d   Obara, T ^e   Nishida, A ^b   Saito, Y ^b   Mukai, T ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics; Magnetotail; Nonlinear phenomena; Space plasma physics; Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 63149132551     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-1035-2009     Document Type: Article

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