Theory of dispersive shear Alfvén wave focusing in Earth's magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Rankin, R ^a   Marchand, R ^a   Lu, J Y ^a   Kabin, K ^a   Tikhonchuk, V T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE LASERS INTENSES ET APPLICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; DISPERSION (WAVES); EARTH (PLANET); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GEOMAGNETISM; WAVE POWER;

FIELD LINE RESONANCES (FLR); LOCALIZATION; MAGNETOSPHERIC FOCUSING; OPTICAL WAVES;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

MAGNETOSPHERE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 20444493562     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021831     Document Type: Article

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