Global cooling and densification of the plasma sheet during an extended period of purely northward IMF on October 22-24, 2003

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Oieroset M ^a   Raeder, J ^b   Phan, T D ^a   Wing, S ^c   McFadden, J P ^a   Li, W ^b   Fujimoto, M ^d   Reme H ^e   Balogh, A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e IRAP   (France)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; DENSIFICATION; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; WIND EFFECTS;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF); ION DISPERSION; MAGNETOSHEATH PLASMA;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

PLASMA;

EID: 25844480578     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021523     Document Type: Article

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