Auroral streamer and its role in driving wave-like pre-onset aurora

Abstract The time scales of reconnection outflow, substorm expansion, and development of instabilities in the terrestrial magnetosphere are comparable, i.e., from several to tens of minutes, and their existence is related. In this paper, we investigate the physical relations among those phenomena wi...

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Main Authors: Zhonghua Yao, Z. Y. Pu, I. J. Rae, A. Radioti, M. V. Kubyshkina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-04-01
Series:Geoscience Letters
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40562-017-0075-6