Toroidal and poloidal Alfvén waves with arbitrary azimuthal wave numbers in a finite pressure plasma in the Earth's magnetosphere

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 267-287

  Klimushkin, D Yu ^a   Mager, P N ^a   Glassmeier, K H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (plasmasphere; MHD waves and instabilities); Space plasma physics (kinetic and MHD theory)

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 1142293866     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-267-2004     Document Type: Article

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