An investigation of the association between steady magnetospheric convection and CIR stream interfaces

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kissinger, J ^a   McPherron, R L ^b   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Hsu, T S ^b   McFadden, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

steady magnetospheric convection; stream interfaces

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; SOLAR WIND;

COROTATING INTERACTION REGIONS; EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE; FLOW CHANNELS; MAGNETOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MAGNETOTAILS; SOLAR WIND PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL STUDY; STREAM INTERFACES;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 79251636736     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041541     Document Type: Article

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