Relation of substorm pre-onset arc to large-scale field-aligned current distribution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Nishimura, Y ^a   Lyons, L R ^a   Kikuchi, T ^b   Angelopoulos, V ^a   Donovan, E F ^c   Mende, S B ^d   Lhr, H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

ALL-SKY; COORDINATED OBSERVATIONS; FIELD ALIGNED CURRENTS; SUBSTORMS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; AURORA; IMAGERY; STORM;

EID: 84870013041     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053761     Document Type: Article

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