Thin and superthin ion current sheets. Quasi-adiabatic and nonadiabatic models

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 127-139

  Zelenyi, L M ^a   Sitnov, M I ^b   Malova, H V ^b   Sharma, A S ^c  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0033843595     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-7-127-2000     Document Type: Article

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