Scattering by chorus waves as the dominant cause of diffuse auroral precipitation

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7318, 2010, Pages 943-946

  Thorne, Richard M ^a   Ni, Binbin ^a   Tao, Xin ^a   Horne, Richard B ^b,c   Meredith, Nigel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; AURORA; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON; IONIZATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 77958617772     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09467     Document Type: Article

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