Solar cycle, seasonal, and diurnal variations of subauroral ion drifts: Statistical results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5076-5086

  He, Fei ^a   Zhang, Xiao Xin ^b   Chen, Bo ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

diurnal variation; seasonal variation; solar cycle variation; subauroral ion drifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904631249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JA019807     Document Type: Article

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