Observation of electrostatic solitary waves associated with reconnection on the dayside magnetopause boundary

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Matsumoto, H ^a   Deng, X H ^a,b   Kojima, H ^a   Anderson, R R ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; GEOMAGNETISM; WAVES; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; MAGNETOPAUSE;

ELECTROSTATIC SOLITARY WAVES (ESW); AMPLITUDE MODULATED; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; ELECTROSTATIC SOLITARY WAVES; ELECTROSTATIC WAVES; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

SUN; SOLITONS;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 0041689761     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016319     Document Type: Article

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