Energy avalanches in the central plasma sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Liu, W W ^a   Charbonneau, P ^b   Thibault, K ^b   Morales, L ^b  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

CENTRAL PLASMA SHEET (CPS); ENERGY AVALANCHES; RANDOM FACTOR; SCALE FREE DISTRIBUTION;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ENERGY; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA; SIMULATION;

EID: 34047209292     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027282     Document Type: Article

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