Modeling the effects of cold-dense and hot-tenuous plasma sheet on proton ring current energy and peak location

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Lavraud, Benoit ^a   Jordanova, Vania K ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MAGNETIZATION; PLASMA SHEATHS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; STORMS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC DRIFT; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA PRESSURE; RING CURRENT;

PROTONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DENSITY; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETOTAIL; MODELING; PLASMA;

EID: 34548024178     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027566     Document Type: Article

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