Ballooning instability of a thin current sheet in the high-Lundquist-number magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 861-864

  Bhattacharjee, A ^a   Ma, Z W ^a   Wang, Xiaogang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS; STABILITY; TIME MEASUREMENT; CURRENT DENSITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BALLOONING INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS; MULTI-POINT OBSERVATION; MULTI-SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

ALUMINUM; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

BALLOONING INSTABILITY; HIGH LUNDQUIST NUMBER MAGNETOTAIL; THIN CURRENT SHEET;

EID: 0032025288     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00412     Document Type: Article

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