Wind survey of high-speed bulk flows and field-aligned beams in the near-Earth plasma sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A12, 2002, Pages

  Raj, Arjun ^a   Phan, Tai ^a   Lin, Robert P ^a   Angeloppulos, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BBF selection criteria; Bursty bulk flow; Dawn dusk asymmetry; PSBL beams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749423237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA007547     Document Type: Article

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