Hybrid simulations of the magnetosheath compression: Marginal stability path

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Hellinger, Petr ^a   Trávniček, Pavel ^a   Mangeney, André ^b   Grappin, Roland ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOTRON RADIATION; MAGNETOS; MIRRORS; PLASMAS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; STABILITY;

MARGINAL STABILITY PATH; HYBRID EXPANDING; HYBRID SIMULATION; MAGNETOSHEATH PLASMA; MARGINAL STABILITY; PARAMETER REGIONS; PROTON TEMPERATURES; SIMULATION BOXES; SLOW COMPRESSION;

GEOPHYSICS; PLASMA STABILITY;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0346911809     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017855     Document Type: Article

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