Consequences of current interruption for plasma sheet dynamics

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A9, 2002, Pages

  Pritchett, P L ^a   Coroniti, F V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous resistance; Coaxial sheet current; Field aligned currents; Hall current; Localized reconnection; Substorm current wedge

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644311796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009000     Document Type: Article

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