Shear Alfvén waves on stretched magnetic field lines near midnight in Earth's magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 3265-3268

  Rankin, R ^a   Fenrich, F ^a   Tikhonchuk, V T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS; SHEAR FLOW; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMAS; PROTONS; SHEAR WAVES; STANDING WAVE METERS;

DIPOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE; ENERGETIC PROTONS; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; MAGNETIC FIELD MODELING; MAGNETOSPHERIC FIELD; MERIDIONAL PLANES;

MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE;

AURORAL EMISSIONS; PLASMA SHEETS;

EID: 0034353013     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL000029     Document Type: Article

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