Self-organized criticality: A new paradigm for the magnetotail dynamics

Fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 275-283

  Consolini, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric Substorms; Magnetotail Dynamics; Self Organized Criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036759414     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X02001397     Document Type: Article

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