Ring Current Behavior as Revealed by Energetic Proton Precipitation

The Inner Magnetosphere: Physics and Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 237-247

  Soraas F ^a   Aarsnes, K ^a   Carlsen, D V ^a   Oksavik, K ^b   Evans, D S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics Simulation methods

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOMAGNETISM; IONS; PLASMA SHEATHS; PLASMA THEORY;

ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS; ENERGETIC PROTONS; GEOMAGNETIC EQUATOR; MAGNETIC FIELD FORCES; MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS; PITCH ANGLE DISTRIBUTION; PITCH-ANGLE SCATTERING; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 84953734631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/155GM25     Document Type: Chapter

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