A quantitative test of the self-organization hypothesis of the magnetopause Kelvin-Helmholtz instability as an inverse problem

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 409-412

  Miura, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; MAGNETOPAUSE; STABILITY;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MAGNETOPAUSE OSCILLATIONS;

GEOMAGNETISM; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MAGNETOPAUSE; VORTICITY;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; MAGNETOSHEATH FLOW; QUANTITATIVE TESTS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VELOCITY SHEAR LAYERS;

EID: 0033083504     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900300     Document Type: Article

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