Geotail observation of cold ion streams in the medium distance magnetotail lobe in the course of a substorm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1023-1026

  Mukai, T ^a   Hirahara, M ^b   Machida, S ^c   Saito, Y ^a   Terasawa, T ^b   Nishida, A ^a  

^a Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; ION BEAMS; IONOSPHERE; IONS; PLASMA SHEATHS; VELOCITY;

ENHANCED CONVECTION; GEOTAIL OBSERVATIONS; INITIAL OPERATION; LOW-ENERGY PARTICLES; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; MAGNETOTAIL LOBES; POLAR IONOSPHERES; VELOCITY FILTERS;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0008157138     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/93GL02424     Document Type: Article

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