Signatures of field-aligned currents in Saturn's nightside magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Talboys, D L ^b   Arridge, C S ^a,e   Bunce, E J ^b   Coates, A J ^a,e   Cowley, S W H ^b   Dougherty, M K ^c   Khurana, K K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; AURORAL EMISSION; AURORAL LATITUDES; AZIMUTHAL FIELD; CASSINI SPACECRAFT; FIELD ALIGNED CURRENTS; FIELD LINES; FIELD PATTERNS; MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING;

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

PLASMA FLOW;

AURORA; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 72049099296     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039867     Document Type: Article

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