Firehose driven magnetic fluctuations in the magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Horton, W ^a   Xu, B Y ^a   Wong, H Vernon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETOSPHERE; PULSATILE FLOW; WAVE POWER;

GEOMETRIC PULSATIONS; NONLINEAR FORCES;

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA;

EID: 18544395500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl018309     Document Type: Article

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