The relationship between electrostatic shocks and kinetic Alfvén waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2089-2092

  Lysak, Robert L ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROSTATICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES;

ELECTROSTATIC SHOCKS; KINETIC ALFVEN WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 0032099350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00065     Document Type: Article

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