Modelling electrostatic sheath effects on swarm electric field instrument measurements

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 156, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 73-87

  Marchand, R ^a   Burchill, J K ^b   Knudsen, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electric field; Ionosphere; Particle distribution measurement; Satellite plasma interaction; Sheath effects

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; ELECTROSTATIC SHEATH; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FIELD INSTRUMENTS; FINITE THICKNESS; FLOATING POTENTIALS; IN-SITU; ION FLOW VELOCITY; IONOSPHERIC PLASMAS; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLE SENSORS; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; PLASMA CONDITIONS; PLASMA PARAMETER; POTENTIAL DROP; SATELLITE-PLASMA INTERACTION; SHEATH EFFECTS;

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLOW VELOCITY; INSTRUMENTS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PLASMA SHEATHS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 79957472292     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-010-9735-y     Document Type: Article

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