
%0 Journal Article
%A Cole, KD 
%T A Dynamo Theory of the Aurora and Magnetic Disturbance
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1960/09/01
%V 13
%N 3
%P 484-497
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH600484
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH600484 
%X A model of an aurora regarded as a plane slab of highly ionized air parallel to the geomagnetic field within the ionosphere is examined. The model is stable in the presence of a wind of neutral molecules which, blowing the slab across the geomagnetic field, generates an electric polarization field perpendicular to its faces and a current along its length. This current is concentrated in a small height range and is chiefly due to electron drift. 
