Auroral Morphology: A Historical Account and Major Auroral Features During Auroral Substorms

Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 29-38

  Akasofu, S I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora; Auroral morphology; History; Ionosphere; Magnetosphere; Substorm

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY;

AURORA; CURRENT REDUCTION; HISTORICAL ACCOUNT; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING; MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; SUBSTORMS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 84874782942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001156     Document Type: Chapter

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