Effects of guide field on quick magnetic reconnection triggering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Tanaka, K G ^a   Shinohara, I ^b   Fujimoto, M ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

7835 Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic reconnection; 7839 Space Plasma Physics: Nonlinear phenomena; 7843 Space Plasma Physics: Numerical simulation studies; 7867 Space Plasma Physics: Wave particle interactions; 7871 Space Plasma Physics: Waves and instabilities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS;

CURRENT SHEET; ION-SCALE CURRENT SHEET; LOWER-HYBRID DRIFT INSTABILITY (LHDI); QUICK MAGNETIC RECONNECTION TRIGGERING (QMRT);

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 14044269315     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021191     Document Type: Article

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