First test of stochastic growth theory for Langmuir waves in Earth's foreshock

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 369-372

  Cairns, Iver H ^a,b   Robinson, P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SHOCK WAVES; EARTHQUAKES; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EARTH'S FORESHOCK; LANGMUIR WAVES; STOCHASTIC GROWTH THEORY (SGT);

GEOMAGNETISM; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

BEAM PARAMETER; LANGMUIR WAVES; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; SPACECRAFT LOCATION; STOCHASTIC GROWTH; STOCHASTIC-GROWTH THEORIES; WAVEFIELDS;

EID: 0031073950     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00084     Document Type: Article

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