THEMIS observations of long-lived regions of large-amplitude whistler waves in the inner magnetosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Cully, Chris M ^a,b   Bonnel, J W ^a,c   Ergun, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); WAVE POWER;

AMPLITUDE WAVES; CRITICAL PARAMETERS; EQUATORIAL ORBITS; FIELD INSTRUMENTS; INNER MAGNETOSPHERES; LARGE REGIONS; LOCAL TIMES; MEV ENERGIES; MULTIPLE SATELLITES; RADIATION BELT ELECTRONS; SPATIAL EXTENTS; TIME AVERAGES; WAVE ACTIVITIES; WHISTLER WAVES;

RADIATION BELTS;

AMPLITUDE; LONGEVITY; MAGNETOSPHERE; PROBABILITY; WAVE POWER;

PACHYCEPHALIDAE;

EID: 57049132801     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033643     Document Type: Article

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