Transport of solar wind into Earth's magnetosphere through rolled-up Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7001, 2004, Pages 755-758

  Hasegawa, H ^a   Fujimoto, M ^b   Phan, T D ^c   Reme H ^d   Balogh, A ^e   Dunlop, M W ^f   Hashimoto, C ^b   TanDokoro, R ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d IRAP   (France)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

AURORAE; MAGNETIC STORMS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSPHERE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE; VORTEX MOTION; WEATHER; WIND;

EID: 4043103278     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02799     Document Type: Article

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