A revised forest-fire cellular automaton for the nonlinear dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 1371-1377

  Consolini, Giuseppe ^a   De Michelis, Paola ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Criticality; Earth's magnetosphere; Magnetotail dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000096288     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(00)00238-8     Document Type: Article

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