Cluster electric current density measurements within a magnetic flux rope in the plasma sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Slavin, J A ^a   Lepping, R P ^a   Gjerloev, J ^a   Goldstein, M L ^a   Fairfield, D H ^a   Acuna, M H ^a   Balogh, A ^b   Dunlop, M ^b   Kivelson, M G ^c   Khurana, K ^c   Fazakerley, A ^d   Owen, C J ^d   Reme, H ^e   Bosqued, J M ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMAS; SPACECRAFT; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETISM; PLASMA SHEATHS; ROPE;

FLUX ROPES; BURSTY BULK FLOW; CLUSTER SPACECRAFT; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD PROFILE; MAGNETIC FLUX ROPES; PARALLEL COMPONENT; PEAK CURRENT DENSITY; SPACECRAFT MODEL;

GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETOPLASMA;

MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA;

EID: 0141427709     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016411     Document Type: Article

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