Evolution of nightside subauroral proton aurora caused by transient plasma sheet flows

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 5295-5304

  Nishimura, Y ^a   Bortnik, J ^a   Li, W ^a   Lyons, L R ^a   Donovan, E F ^b   Angelopoulos, V ^a   Mende, S B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EMIC waves; plasma sheet flow burst; plasmasphere; proton aurora; THEMIS ASI; THEMIS satellite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906319206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JA020029     Document Type: Article

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