New observations of ion beams in the plasma sheet boundary layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3285-3288

  Parks, G ^a   Chen, L J ^a   McCarthy, M ^a   Larson, D ^b   Lin, R P ^b   Phan, T ^b   Reme, H ^c   Sanderson, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA SHEET BOUNDARY LAYERS (PSBL);

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ION BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

PLASMA;

EID: 0032173286     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02208     Document Type: Article

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