Modeling of remote sensing of thin current sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Lee, E ^a   Wilber, M ^a   Parks, G K ^a   Min, K W ^b   Lee, D Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

2744 Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail; 2748 Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail boundary layers; 2753 Magnetospheric Physics: Numerical modeling; 2764 Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma sheet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACECRAFT; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PLASMA SHEATHS; SPACE OPTICS;

MAGNETOTRAIL; PHASE SPACE DISTRIBUTION; PLASMA SHEET DYNAMICS; THIN CURRENT SHEET;

MAGNETOPLASMA; REMOTE SENSING;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

CONVECTIVE FLOW; CURRENT SHEETS; MODEL RESULTS; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PHASE SPACE DISTRIBUTIONS; PLASMA SHEET DYNAMICS; TEST PARTICLES; THIN CURRENT SHEET;

EID: 13244281699     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020331     Document Type: Article

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