Sausage mode instability of thin current sheets as a cause of magnetospheric substorms

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 604-612

  Buchner J ^a   Kuska, J P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (plasma waves and instabilities; storms and substorms); Space plasma physics (magnetic reconnection)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000861920     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0604-5     Document Type: Article

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