Field-aligned currents in the outermost plasma sheet boundary layer with Geotail observation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Ueno, Genta ^a   Ohtani, Shin Ichi ^b,d   Saito, Yoshifumi ^c   Mukai, Toshifumi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

2708 magnetospheric physics: Current systems (2409); 2736 magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; 2748 magnetospheric physics: Magnetotail boundary layers; 2764 magnetospheric physics: Plasma sheet

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844386514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009367     Document Type: Article

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