Virtual satellite observations of plasmoids generated by fast reconnection in the geomagnetic tail

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1411-1422

  Ugai, M ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (Magnetotail; Storms and substorms)

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; MAGNETOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLASMA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80052082940     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-29-1411-2011     Document Type: Article

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