Oscillatory flow braking in the magnetotail: THEMIS statistics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2505-2510

  Panov, Evgeny V ^a   Kubyshkina, Marina V ^b   Nakamura, Rumi ^a   Baumjohann, Wolfgang ^a   Angelopoulos, Vassilis ^c   Sergeev, Victor A ^b   Petrukovich, Anatoli A ^d  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

auroral streamer; BBF; oscillatory braking; Pi2 pulsations; plasma sheet; reconnection

Indexed keywords

AURORAL STREAMER; BBF; PI2 PULSATIONS; PLASMA SHEET; RECONNECTION;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

AURORA; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTAIL; OSCILLATING FLOW; PLASMA; PRESSURE FIELD; PROBE;

EID: 84879902291     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50407     Document Type: Article

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