Potential plasma instabilities for substorm expansion onsets

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 127-206

  Lui, A T Y ^a  

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

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ION; OXYGEN; PROTON;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENSITY GRADIENT; DIFFUSION; DISASTER; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ENERGY; ENTROPY; FLOW RATE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; HEATING; KINETICS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SPACE; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY;

EID: 4644309219     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SPAC.0000042942.00362.4e     Document Type: Review

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