Study of the substorm: Part 2: Development of magnetosphere-ionosphere convection to the substorm

It has been believed that the substorm is a manifestation of extraordinary plasma processes in the magnetosphere, such as instability, anomalous resistivity, and reconnection. In this paper, we show that this belief is a misleading concept and that the substorm must be understood as the development...

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Main Author: Takashi Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Institute of Polar Research 2014-07-01
Series:Antarctic Record
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.15094/00010275