Nonlinear two-stream instabilities as an explanation for auroral bipolar wave structures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1821-1824

  Goldman, M V ^a   Oppenheim, M M ^a,b   Newman, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; ELECTRON BEAMS; PLASMA STABILITY; SATELLITES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

AURORAL IONOSPHERE; BIPOLAR STRUCTURE; COUNTER-STREAMING ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; KINETIC SIMULATION; TWO STREAM INSTABILITY; WAVE STRUCTURES;

GEOMAGNETISM; PLASMA WAVES;

AURORAL BIPOLAR WAVE STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR TWO STREAM INSTABILITIES;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0032728354     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900435     Document Type: Article

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