High-speed flowing plasmas in the Earth's plasma sheet

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1182-1187

  Fu, SuiYan ^a,b   Shi, QuanQi ^c   Wang, Chi ^c   Parks, George ^d   Zheng, Ling ^a   Zheng, Hao ^a   Sun, WeiJie ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dipolarization; high speed flow; magnetic structure; plasma sheet; substorm

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955165248     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4361-y     Document Type: Review

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