Timing and localization of reconnection signatures - Is there a substorm model problem?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Krauss Varban, Dietmar ^a   Karimabadi, Homa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC THEORY; STORMS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

DIPOLARIZATION; CURRENT SHEETS; FIELD ALIGNED CURRENTS; HIGHER LATITUDES; KINETIC SIMULATION; NEAR-EARTH PLASMAS; NEUTRAL SHEETS; OPEN FIELD LINES;

IONOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0042691662     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016369     Document Type: Article

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