Auroral Signatures of the Dynamic Plasma Sheet

Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 317-336

  Keiling, A ^a   Shiokawa, K ^b   Uritsky, V ^c   Sergeev, V ^d   Zesta, E ^e   Kepko, L ^c   Ostgaard N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aurora; Auroral phenomena; Magnetosphere ionosphere coupling; Magnetotail; Plasma flows; Plasma sheet

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA JETS; PLASMA SHEATHS;

AURORA; AURORAL PHENOMENA; MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING; MAGNETOTAILS; PLASMA SHEET;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 84904629951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GM001231     Document Type: Chapter

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