Night-time sudden commencements observed by CHAMP and ground-based magnetometers and their relationship to solar wind parameters

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1897-1907

  Luhr H ^a   Schlegel, K ^b   Araki, T ^c   Rother, M ^a   Forster M ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Electric fields and currents) Mag netospheric physics (Solar wind magnetosphere interactions; Storms and substorms)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND; STORM;

EID: 77950621403     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-1897-2009     Document Type: Article

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