Substorm Current Wedge Revisited

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 190, Issue 1-4, 2015, Pages

  Kepko, L ^a   McPherron, R L ^g   Amm, O ^b   Apatenkov, S ^c   Baumjohann, W ^d   Birn, J ^e   Lester, M ^f   Nakamura, R ^d   Pulkkinen, T I ^h   Sergeev, V ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^e Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birkeland currents; Field aligned currents; Substorm; Substorm current wedge

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA THEORY; SPACECRAFT;

FIELD ALIGNED CURRENTS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC SIGNATURES; SUBSTORM EXPANSION; SUBSTORMS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ORBITS;

EID: 84938420565     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-014-0124-9     Document Type: Review

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