Substorm expansion phase: Observations from Geotail, Polar and IMAGE network

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A4, 2003, Pages

  Perraut, Sylvaine ^a,f   Contel, Olivier Le ^a,f   Roux, Aiain ^a,f   Parks, G ^b   Chua, D ^b   Hoshino, M ^c   Mukai, T ^d   Nagai, T ^e  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aurora; Disruption; Magnetotail; Repolarization; Substorm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905331179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009376     Document Type: Article

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