Radial plasma pressure gradients in the high latitude magnetosphere as sources of instabilities leading to the substorm onset

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 761-768

  Stepanova, M V ^a   Antonova, E E ^b   Bosqued, J M ^c   Kovrazhkin, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Field aligned current; Geomagnetic substorm onset; Interchange instability; Plasma pressure

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GRADIENT METHODS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA STABILITY; PLASMAS;

PLASMA PRESSURE; SUBSTORM;

SPACE RESEARCH;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 1842688005     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00634-3     Document Type: Article

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