What is Cluster telling us about magnetotail dynamics?

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1909-1915

  Baumjohann, Wolfgang ^a   Nakamura, Rumi ^a  

^a Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Cluster; Current sheet; Magnetosphere; Magnetotail dynamics

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; NATURAL CONVECTION; PLASMA DENSITY; VELOCITY CONTROL;

CLUSTER; CURRENT SHEET; MAGNETOTAIL DYNAMICS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 23744480243     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2004.02.021     Document Type: Article

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