Development and validation of inversion technique for substorm current wedge using ground magnetic field data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1909-1924

  Chu, Xiangning ^a,b   Hsu, Tung Shin ^a,b   McPherron, Robert L ^a,b   Angelopoulos, Vassilis ^a,b   Pu, Zuyin ^c   Weygand, James J ^a,b   Khurana, Krishan ^a,b   Connors, Martin ^d   Kissinger, Jennifer ^e   Zhang, Hui ^f   Amm, Olaf ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

auroral expansion; mid latitude positive bay; substorm; substorm current wedge; westward travelling surge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899109602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019185     Document Type: Article

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