Favored regions for chorus-driven electron acceleration to relativistic energies in the Earth's outer radiation belt

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Meredith, Nigel P ^a   Horne, Richard B ^b   Thorne, Richard M ^c   Anderson, Roger R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EARTH (PLANET); LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RADIATION BELTS;

PLASMA FREQUENCY; RELATIVISTIC ENERGIES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA;

EID: 0344961721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017698     Document Type: Article

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