Identifying the driver of pulsating aurora

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6000, 2010, Pages 81-84

  Nishimura, Y ^a,b   Bortnik, J ^a   Li, W ^a   Thorne, R M ^a   Lyons, L R ^c,d,e   Angelopoulos, V ^d   Mende, S B ^d   Bonnell, J W ^d   Le Contel, O ^f   Cully, C ^g   Ergun, R ^h   Auster, U ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; AURORA; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; ELECTRON; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLAR REGION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CYCLOTRON; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATING AURORA; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 77957368239     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193186     Document Type: Article

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