Orientation and propagation of current sheet oscillations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Sergeev, V A ^a   Runov, A ^b   Baumjohann, W ^b   Nakamura, R ^b   Zhang, T L ^b   Balogh, A ^c   Louarnd, P ^d   Sauvaud, J A ^d   Reme, H ^d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS; PLASMAS; SPACECRAFT; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CURRENT SHEET OSCILLATIONS; PLASMA SHEETS; TAIL FLANKS;

GEOPHYSICS;

PLASMA; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 18244416399     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl019346     Document Type: Article

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