A statistical and event study of magnetotail dipolarization fronts

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1537-1547

  Schmid, D ^a,b   Volwerk, M ^a   Nakamura, R ^a   Baumjohann, W ^a   Heyn, M ^b  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electromagnetics (Plasmas); Magnetospheric physics (Magnetotail; Storms and substorms)

Indexed keywords

EARTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052781394     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-29-1537-2011     Document Type: Article

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