Excitation of tall auroral rays by ohmic heating in field-aligned current filaments at F region heights

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A4, 2003, Pages

  Otto, A ^a   Lummerzheim, D ^a   Zhu, H ^a   Lie Svendsen, O ^b   Rees, M H ^c   Lanchester, B S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2407 Ionosphere: Auroral ionosphere (2704); 2437 Ionosphere: Ionospheric dynamics; 7859 Space plasma physics: Transport processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905355171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009423     Document Type: Article

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