Temporal and Spatial Features of Waves and Electron Holes Driven by Double Layers and Their Relevance to VLF Saucers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  Singh, Nagendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS;

ANGULAR DISPERSIONS; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; ELECTROSTATIC SHOCKS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; POTENTIAL GRADIENTS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL EVOLUTIONS;

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EID: 0036768077     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015195     Document Type: Article

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