Small-Scale Structure in the Stormtime Ring Current

Inner Magnetosphere Interactions: New Perspectives from Imaging

Volumn 159, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-177

  Liemohn, Michael W ^a   Brandt, Pontus C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging systems in astronomy; Magnetoshpere Remote sensing images

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING;

ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; NEAR-EARTH PLASMAS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; POTENTIAL STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; SUBAURORAL POLARIZATION STREAMS;

STORMS;

EID: 84953397972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/159GM13     Document Type: Chapter

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