3-D Force-balanced Magnetospheric Configurations
Description:
The knowledge of plasma pressure is essential for many physics applications in the magnetosphere, such as computing magnetospheric currents and deriving magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. A thorough knowledge of the 3-D pressure distribution has however eluded the community, as most in-situ pressure observations are either in the ionosphere or the equatorial region of the magnetosphere. With the assumption of pressure isotropy there have been attempts to obtain the pressure at different locatio…
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Date:
February 10, 2003
Creator:
Zaharia, Sorin; Cheng, C. Z. & Maezawa, K.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department