The cold-dense plasma sheet: A geotail perspective

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 325-339

  Fujimoto, M ^a   Terasawa, T ^b   Mukai, T ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Formation of the Plasma Sheet; Magnetotail Flanks; Plasma Transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342512296     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0045-5_14     Document Type: Article

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