Delivery of cold, dense plasma sheet material into the near-Earth region

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A4, 2003, Pages

  Thomsen, M F ^a   Borovsky, J E ^a   Skoug, R M ^a   Smith, C W ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric plasma sources; Plasma sheet; Superdense

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905343170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009544     Document Type: Article

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