Effects of the fringe field of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the equatorial E and valley regions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A12, 2004, Pages

  Kherani, E Alam ^a   De Paula, Eurico R ^a   Bertoni, Fernando C P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crank Nicholson implicit scheme; Fringe field; Marginally magnetized; Pedersen conductivity; Rayleigh Taylor instability; Valley region

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845599712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010364     Document Type: Article

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