Westward traveling surges: Sliding along boundary arcs and distinction from onset arc brightening

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7643-7653

  Lyons, L R ^a   Nishimura, Y ^a   Gallardo Lacourt, B ^a   Zou, Y ^a   Donovan, E ^b   Mende, S ^c   Angelopoulos, V ^a   Ruohoniemi, J M ^d   McWilliams, K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

aurora; flow channels; substorm; surge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892592976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019334     Document Type: Article

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