Solar wind interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere: the role of reconnection in the presence of a large scale sheared flow
The Earth's magnetosphere and solar wind environment is a laboratory of excellence for the study of the physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection. At low latitude magnetopause, magnetic reconnection develops as a secondary instability due to the stretching of magnetic field lines advec...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/16/1/2009/npg-16-1-2009.pdf |