Dissipation scales in the Earth's plasma sheet estimated from Cluster measurements

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 725-732

  Vörös, Zoltan ^a   Baumjohann, W ^a   Nakamura, R ^a   Runov, A ^a   Volwerk, M ^a   Schwarzl, H ^b   Balogh, A ^c   Reme H ^d  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA;

EID: 24144465739     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-12-725-2005     Document Type: Article

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