The Influence of Wave-Particle Interactions on Relativistic Electron Dynamics During Storms

Inner Magnetosphere Interactions: New Perspectives from Imaging

Volumn 159, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-112

  Thorne, Richard M ^a   Horne, Richard B ^b   Glauert, Sarah ^b   Meredith, Nigel P ^c   Shprits, Yuri Y ^a   Summers, Danny ^d   Anderson, Roger R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging systems in astronomy; Magnetoshpere Remote sensing images

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRON RADIATION; DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ENERGY TRANSFER; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PLASMA WAVES; RADIATION BELTS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STORMS; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; NON-ADIABATIC DYNAMICS; PITCH-ANGLE SCATTERING; RADIATION BELT DYNAMICS; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; WHISTLER-MODE CHORUS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

EID: 84953385396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/159GM07     Document Type: Chapter

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