A saturation mechanism for the Farley-Buneman instability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1833-1836

  Otani, Niels F ^a,c   Oppenheim, Meers ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; FLOW FIELDS; TWO PHASE FLOW; CHARGE TRANSFER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BUNEMAN INSTABILITY; EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; SECONDARY WAVES; TWO FLUID MODEL; ZERO ORDER;

STABILITY; PLASMA WAVES;

DAYTIME EQUATORIAL ELECTROJETS; FARLEY-BUNEMAN INSTABILITY;

EID: 0032095051     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl50868     Document Type: Article

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