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Major questions on the interchange of thermal plasmas between the ionosphere and plasmasphereIt is for the plasmaspheric flux tube regions of the magnetospheric flux tubes that the greatest likelihood exists for a near-term, complete description of the plasma, since the magnetic field geometry is relatively well behaved and the plasma source and boundary conditions are specifiable with reasonable accuracy. It may be speculated that this emerging understanding may be useful in the study of the more complex dynamical behavior of plasma couplings within such other 'closed flux tube' geometries as the plasma sheet flux tubes, where ionospheric ions flow up to populate the flux tubes and precipitating particles from them produce the diffuse aurora.
Document ID
19840036667
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Horwitz, J. L.
(Alabama, University Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1983
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics
Volume: 45
ISSN: 0021-9169
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
84A19454
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-33982
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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