Global estimates of plasmaspheric losses during moderate disturbance intervals

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-36

  Spasojevic, M ^a,c   Sandel, B R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (Electric fields; Plasma convection; Plasmasphere)

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; ELECTRIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 79951986012     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-27-2010     Document Type: Article

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