Asymmetric thin current sheets in the Earth's magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Malova, H V ^a,b   Zelenyi, L M ^b   Popov, V Y ^a,b   Delcourt, Dominique C ^c   Petrukovich, A A ^b   Runov, Andrei V ^d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA SOURCES;

SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; THIN CURRENT SHEETS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ELECTRON DENSITY; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PLASMA; PRESSURE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 35948954724     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030011     Document Type: Article

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