Auroral electrojets during deep solar minimum at the end of solar cycle 23

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Pulkkinen, T I ^a,b   Tanskanen, E I ^a   Viljanen, A ^a   Partamies, N ^a   Kauristie, K ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 79954549259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016098     Document Type: Article

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