Mechanism of substorm current wedge formation: THEMIS observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Yao, Z H ^a   Pu, Z Y ^a   Fu, S Y ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Kubyshkina, M ^c   Xing, X ^b   Lyons, L ^b   Nishimura, Y ^b   Xie, L ^a   Wang, X G ^a   Xiao, C J ^a   Cao, X ^d   Liu, J ^b   Zhang, H ^d   Nowada, M ^a   Zong, Q G ^a   Guo, R L ^a   Zhong, J ^a   Li, J X ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; FRICTION MATERIALS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

COUNTER-CLOCKWISE; DIPOLARIZATION; FIELD ALIGNED CURRENTS; GROWTH PHASE; NEAR-EARTH; NEAR-EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; SUBSTORMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

AZIMUTH; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SPACECRAFT; VORTEX; VORTICITY;

EID: 84864071640     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052055     Document Type: Article

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