Spectral scaling in the turbulent Earth's plasma sheet revisited

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 535-541

  Voros Z ^a,b   Baumjohann, W ^a   Nakamura, R ^a   Runov, A ^a   Volwerk, M ^a,c   Asano, Y ^d   Jankovicova D ^b   Lucek, E A ^e   Reme H ^f  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA; TURBULENCE;

EID: 34548078998     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-535-2007     Document Type: Article

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