Visualization and criticality of magnetotail field topology in a three-dimensional particle simulation

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1011-1019

  Cai, DongSheng ^a   Li, Yaoting ^a   Ichikawai, Taizi ^a   Xiao, Chijic ^a   Nishikawa, Ken ichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0012382509     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351698     Document Type: Article

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