Formation of reconnection layer at the dayside magnetopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3145-3148

  Lin, Y ^a   Xie, H ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; PLASMA SHEATHS; PLASMAS;

GUIDE FIELD; HYBRID SIMULATION; INTERMEDIATE SHOCKS; ION LAYERS; ION TRANSPORTS; MAGNETOSHEATHS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOSPHERE;

ION TRANSPORT; MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOSHEATH; MAGNETOSPHERE;

RECONNECTION LAYER;

MAGNETOPAUSE; RECONNECTION LAYER;

EID: 0031391074     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03278     Document Type: Article

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