Nonideal high-β magnetohydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability driven by the shear in the ion diamagnetic drift velocity at the subsolar magnetopause

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A2, 2003, Pages

  Miura, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

High beta plasma; Ion diamagnetic drift velocity; Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Nonideal MHD; Plasma transport; Subsolar magnetopause

Indexed keywords

EID: 35349007742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009563     Document Type: Article

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