Convection and the formation of thin current sheets in the near‐Earth plasma sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 1994, Pages 1587-1590

  Pritchett, P L ^a   Coroniti, F V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000239103     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/94GL01364     Document Type: Article

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13. Collisionless reconnection in two‐dimensional magnetotail equilibria
14. Current sheet thickness in the near‐Earth plasma sheet during substorm growth phase
15. Structure of the tail plasma/current sheet at ˜ 11RE and its changes in the course of a substorm