Comparison of multi-point measurements of current sheet structure and analytical models

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2749-2758

  Artemyev, A V ^a   Petrukovich, A A ^a   Zelenyi, L M ^a   Malova, H V ^a,b   Popov, V Y ^a,b   Nakamura, R ^c   Runov, A ^d   Apatenkov, S ^e  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETOTAIL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; PLASMA;

EID: 51949103478     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-2749-2008     Document Type: Article

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