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substorm current wedges

substorm current wedges is the plural of substorm current wedge.

Meaning of substorm current wedge

Noun

substorm current wedge (plural substorm current wedges)

  1. A sudden disruption of an azimuthally confined section of enhanced current across a magnetotail and its diversion to the auroral ionosphere via field-aligned currents.
    • In particular, the relative contributions of ionospheric Pedersen and Hall currents to field-aligned currents are evaluated in hoping to shed some new light on the ionospheric closure of the substorm current wedge.2000, Shin-ichi Ohtani, Ryoichi Fujii, Michael Hesse, Magnetospheric Current Systems, page 199

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What is substorm current wedges the plural of?
Substorm current wedges is the plural of substorm current wedge.

Words near substorm current wedges in the dictionary

  1. substorerooms
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  3. substories
  4. substorm
  5. substorm current wedge
  6. substorm current wedges
  7. substorms
  8. substory
  9. substract
  10. substracted
  11. substracting

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