Cluster observations of earthward flowing plasmoid in the tail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Zong, Q G ^a   Fritz, T A ^a   Pu, Z Y ^b   Fu, S Y ^b   Baker, D N ^c   Zhang, H ^a   Lui, A T ^d   Vogiatzis, I ^a   Glassmeier, K H ^e   Korth, A ^f   Daly, P W ^f   Balogh, A ^g   Reme, H ^h  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

2720 Magnetospheric physics: Energetic particles,trapped; 2744 Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail; 2748 Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail boundary layers; 2764 Magnetospheric physics: Plasma sheet; 2788 Magnetospheric physics: Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRONS; IONS; PLASMA THEORY;

CLUSTERS; PLASMOIDS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 10644228588     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020692     Document Type: Article

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