Large amplitude, extremely rapid, predominantly perpendicular electric field structures at the magnetopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Mozer, F S ^a   Bale, S D ^b   Scudder, J D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS;

MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOSPHERIC SEPARATIX; TIME RESOLUTION;

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 7044284804     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020062     Document Type: Article

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