Magnetostatic equilibrium and current systems in the Earth's magnetosphere

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 752-760

  Antonova, E E ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Field aligned currents; Magnetospheric plasma pressure; Magnetostatic equilibrium; Self organized criticality; Turbulent plasma transport

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GRADIENT METHODS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA TURBULENCE; PLASMAS;

PLASMA PRESSURE GRADIENT; PLASMA TRANSPORT;

SPACE RESEARCH;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 1842637511     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00636-7     Document Type: Article

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