THEMIS observation of multiple dipolarization fronts and associated wave characteristics in the near-Earth magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Zhou, Meng ^a,b   Ashour Abdalla, Maha ^a,c   Deng, Xiaohua ^a,b   Schriver, David ^a   El Alaoui, Mostafa ^a   Pang, Ye ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DISRUPTION; CURRENT LAYERS; DIAMAGNETIC CURRENTS; DIPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD WAVE; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON HARMONIC; ELECTRON ENERGIZATION; ENERGETIC ELECTRON; HALL ELECTRIC FIELD; ION INERTIAL LENGTH; LEADING EDGE; LOWER HYBRID; NEAR-EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA BUBBLE; SUBSTORM INJECTIONS; SUBSTORMS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE FLUCTUATIONS;

CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLASMA HEATING;

ELECTRONS;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 72149123400     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040663     Document Type: Article

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