Kinetic simulations of the coupling between current instabilities and reconnection in thin current sheets

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 141-150

  Wiegelmann, T ^a,b   Buchner J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0033847888     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-7-141-2000     Document Type: Article

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