Trapped energetic electron curtains produced by thunderstorm driven relativistic runaway electrons

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1095-1098

  Lehtinen, N G ^a   Inan, U S ^a   Bell, T F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA; RUNAWAY BEAM; TRAPPED ENERGETIC ELECTRON CURTAIN;

GEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 0034352441     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010765     Document Type: Article

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