Pulsed flows at the high-altitude cusp poleward boundary, and associated ionospheric convection and particle signatures, during a Cluster - FAST - SuperDARN - Søndrestrøm conjunction under a southwest IMF

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2891-2905

  Farrugia, Charles J ^a   Lund, E J ^a   Sandholt, P E ^b   Wild, J A ^c   Cowley, S W H ^c   Balogh, A ^d   Mouikis, C ^a   Mobius E ^a   Dunlop, M W ^e   Bosqued, J M ^f   Carlson, C W ^g   Parks, G K ^g   Cerisier, J C ^h   Kelly, J D ⁱ   Sauvaud, J A ^f   Reme H ^f  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f IRAP   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

ⁱ SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (current systems; magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; solar wind magnetosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 6344247636     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-2891-2004     Document Type: Article

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