Can flow bursts penetrate into the inner magnetosphere?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Dubyagin, S ^a   Sergeev, V ^a   Apatenkov, S ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Runov, A ^b   Nakamura, R ^c   Baumjohann, W ^c   McFadden, J ^d   Larson, D ^d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS;

BUBBLE MODELS; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; MACRO SCALE; MINIMAL VALUE; PARTICLE INJECTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLASMA INJECTION; PLASMA SHEET; PLASMA TUBES; SUBSTORMS; TIME HISTORY;

SPACECRAFT;

FLOW FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; PARTICLE MOTION; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 79955037361     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047016     Document Type: Article

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