Alfvén vortices in Saturn's magnetosheath: Cassini observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Alexandrova, O ^a   Saur, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; VORTEX FLOW;

CASSINI; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSHEATH; NON-LINEAR; VELOCITY PERTURBATIONS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; SATURN; SHOCK WAVE; VORTEX;

EID: 53749084788     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034411     Document Type: Article

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