Substorm plasma sheet ion pressure profiles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Wing, Simon ^a   Gjerloev, Jesper W ^a   Johnson, Jay R ^b   Hoffman, R A ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ENTROPY;

SUBSTORM PLASMA SHEET; TEMPERATURE ENHANCEMENT;

METEOROLOGY;

ENTROPY; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; PLASMA; PRESSURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 35948998453     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030453     Document Type: Article

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