Unsteady propagation of collisionless trans-Alfvenic shocks at large timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 979-982

  Markovskii, S A ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PRESSURE; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS; FLOW VELOCITY; SHOCK WAVES; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ANISOTROPIC PRESSURE; COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; SHOCK PROPAGATION; TRANS ALFVENIC SHOCK WAVE;

PLASMA SHOCK WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA;

PLASMA;

ANISOTROPIC PRESSURE; COLLISIONLESS; FLOW VARIATIONS; INITIAL FLOW; SHOCK PROPAGATION; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; UNSTEADY PROPAGATION; UNSTEADY STATE;

EID: 0033117430     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900122     Document Type: Article

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