Source distributions of substorm ions observed in the near-Earth magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 955-958

  Ashour Abdalla, M ^a,c   El Alaoui, M ^a,c   Peroomian, V ^a,c   Walker, R J ^a,c   Raeder, J ^a,c   Frank, L A ^b   Paterson, W R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ION SOURCES; MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; STORMS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; GEOTAIL PLASMA OBSERVATIONS; MAGNETOSPHERIC TOPOLOGY; PLASMA MANTLE; SUBSTORM IONS;

PLASMA SOURCES; IONS;

PLASMA;

EXPANSION PHASE; HIGH LATITUDES; LOW LATITUDES; MANTLE SOURCE; NEAR-EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; OPEN FIELD LINES; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTORM ONSET;

EID: 0033117421     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900112     Document Type: Article

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