Sausage mode instability of thin current sheets as a cause of magnetospheric substorms
Observations have shown that, prior to substorm explosions, thin current sheets are formed in the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetotail. This provokes the question, to what extent current-sheet thinning and substorm onsets are physically, maybe even causally, related. To answer this quest...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
1999-05-01
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| Series: | Annales Geophysicae |
| Online Access: | https://www.ann-geophys.net/17/604/1999/angeo-17-604-1999.pdf |