A localized disturbance of the earth's magnetic field in high latitudes, typically manifested as an aurora.
亚暴（地球高纬度磁场的扰动，典型表现是极光）
Example sentencesExamples
A magnetospheric substorm has three distinct phases: growth, expansion, and recovery.
NASA satellites and ground observatories will be able to study the solar substorms behind aurora borealis.
A typical example of how both missions will co-operate is the study of the magnetic substorms producing the bright aurorae.
The jagged peaks mark the arrival of electrons in substorms, and they gradually drift away again.
Observations from satellites and from widely-spaced observing points on the earth's surface show that substorms typically originate at the auroral zone on that part of the earth opposite the sun.
Definition of substorm in US English:
substorm
nounˈsəbstôrm
A localized disturbance of the earth's magnetic field in high latitudes, typically manifested as an aurora.
亚暴（地球高纬度磁场的扰动，典型表现是极光）
Example sentencesExamples
The jagged peaks mark the arrival of electrons in substorms, and they gradually drift away again.
A typical example of how both missions will co-operate is the study of the magnetic substorms producing the bright aurorae.
NASA satellites and ground observatories will be able to study the solar substorms behind aurora borealis.
A magnetospheric substorm has three distinct phases: growth, expansion, and recovery.
Observations from satellites and from widely-spaced observing points on the earth's surface show that substorms typically originate at the auroral zone on that part of the earth opposite the sun.