Plasma mass density in the plasmatrough: Comparison using ULF waves and CRRES

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3277-3280

  Loto'aniu, T M ^a   Waters, C L ^a   Fraser, B J ^a   Samson, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASMA DENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WAVE EQUATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SPACECRAFT;

PLASMA MASS DENSITY SPATIAL GRADIENTS; PLASMATROUGH;

MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

FIELD LINE RESONANCES; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD MODELING; PLASMA DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PLASMA MASS DENSITY; RADIAL DISTANCE; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; TYPICAL VALUES;

EID: 0033226422     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003641     Document Type: Article

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