Broadband plasma waves in the magnetopause and polar cap boundary layers

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 377-414

  Lakhina, G S ^a   Tsurutani, B T ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer waves; Broadband waves; Plasma waves

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; MAGNETOPAUSE; PLASMA;

EID: 0033512267     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006603103116     Document Type: Article

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