Hall and turbulence effects on magnetic reconnection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Smith, D ^a   Ghosh, S ^a   Dmitruk, P ^b   Matthaeus, W H ^b  

^a L3 Communications Analytics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HALL EFFECT; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

RECONNECTION RATE; TURBULENCE AMPLITUDE; HALL MHD; HALL PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MHD TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE EFFECT;

TURBULENCE;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 2442532616     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018689     Document Type: Article

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