High altitude ion heating observed by the Cluster spacecraft

This thesis deals with heating of outowing oxygen ions at high altitude above the polar cap using data from the Cluster spacecraft. oInospheric plasma may flow up from the ionosphere but at velocities which are low enough that the ions are still gravitationally bound. For the ions to overcome gravit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waara, Martin
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik 2011
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43611
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