Ballooning instability in the tail plasma sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4095-4098

  Lee, D Y ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA STABILITY; VECTORS;

BALLOONING INSTABILITY; BALLOONING MODE EQUATION; PLASMA SHEET;

GEOMAGNETISM;

PLASMA;

EID: 0032215820     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900105     Document Type: Article

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