Ion and electron accelerations by large-scale shear Alfvén waves via cross-field instabilities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Khazanov, Igor ^a   Singh, Nagendra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROSTATICS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

ELECTRON ACCELERATIONS; ION ACCELERATIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; AURORA; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON DENSITY; ION; MAGNETIC FIELD; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 37349031059     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031444     Document Type: Article

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