Plasma transport at the magnetospheric boundary due to reconnection in Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3565-3568

  Nykyri, K ^a   Otto, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MASS TRANSFER; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA THEORY; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA SHEATHS; TEMPERATURE;

PLASMA SHEET DENSITY; SOLAR WIND DENSITY;

GEOPHYSICS; VORTEX FLOW;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

HIGH DENSITY PLASMAS; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ VORTICES; MAGNETOSPHERIC BOUNDARY; MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMAS; MULTIPLE CURRENTS; SOLAR WIND DENSITY; VISCOUS INTERACTION;

EID: 0035883378     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013239     Document Type: Article

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