On the azimuthal location of auroral breakup: Hemispheric asymmetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Liou, K ^a   Newell, P T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; PLASMA SHEATHS;

ANGLE EFFECTS; AZIMUTHAL COMPONENTS; DIPOLE TILT ANGLE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLASMA SHEET; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ASYMMETRY; AURORA; AZIMUTH; CONDUCTIVITY; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLASMA; SKEWNESS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TILT; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 78650077208     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045537     Document Type: Article

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