Landau damping and resultant unidirectional propagation of chorus waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Bortnik, J ^a,b   Inan, U S ^a   Bell, T F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHORUS WAVES; EQUATORIAL ELECTRON GYROFREQUENCY; MAGNETOSHPERIC REFLECTIONS; UNIDIRECTIONAL PROPAGATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

DAMPING; MAGNETOSPHERE; RAY TRACING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33645814434     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024553     Document Type: Article

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