Cluster observations of broadband electromagnetic waves in and around a reconnection region in the Earth's magnetotail current sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Petkaki, P ^a   Freeman, M P ^a   Walsh, A P ^a,b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRONS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPACECRAFT; TURBULENCE;

BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE; MAGNETIC ENERGY DENSITY PEAKS; MAGNETIC WAVE SPECTRA; MAGNETOTAIL CURRENT SHEET; WHISTLER WAVE TURBULENCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

BROADBAND DATA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CURRENT VELOCITY; EARTH PRESSURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MAGNETIC METHOD; MAGNETOTAIL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPACECRAFT; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 33845614850     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027066     Document Type: Article

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