Near-Earth thin current sheets and Birkeland currents during substorm growth phase

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Zaharia, Sorin ^a   Cheng, C Z ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; IONOSPHERE; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

THIN CURRENT SHEETS;

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0346216919     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl017456     Document Type: Article

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