SAPS/SAID revisited: A causal relation to the substorm current wedge

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 8516-8535

  Mishin, Evgeny ^a   Nishimura, Yukitoshi ^b,c   Foster, John ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

SAID SAPS; subauroral flow channels; substorm current wedge; turbulent plasmasphere boundary layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028312703     PISSN: 21699380     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017JA024263     Document Type: Article

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