Solar wind control of density and temperature in the near-Earth plasma sheet: WIND/GEOTAIL collaboration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 935-938

  Terasawa, T ^a   Fujimoto, M ^b   Mukai, T ^c   Shinohara, I ^a   Saito, Y ^c   Yamamoto, T ^c   Machida, S ^d   Kokubun, S ^e   Lazarus, A J ^f   Steinberg, J T ^f   Lepping, R P ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA SHEATHS; SOLAR WIND;

PLASMA TEMPERATURE;

SOLAR RADIATION; PLASMA SHEATHS;

DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; GEOTAIL OBSERVATIONS; MAGNETOTAILS; NEAR-EARTH PLASMAS; NORTHWARD IMF; PLASMA SHEET; STATISTICAL SURVEY;

EID: 0031123481     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL04018     Document Type: Article

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