Initiation of ballooning instability in the near-Earth plasma sheet prior to the 23 March 2007 THEMIS substorm expansion onset

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1129-1138

  Zhu, P ^a   Raeder, J ^b   Germaschewski, K ^b   Hegna, C C ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics; MHD waves and instabilities; Plasma sheet; Storms and substorms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUE; FLOW PATTERN; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; GROWTH RATE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 77950431805     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-1129-2009     Document Type: Article

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