Estimates of the north‐south electric field component in the magnetotail low latitude boundary layer
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 8 (6) , 637-640
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl008i006p00637
Abstract
The measurements of O+ ions drift velocity in the magnetotail boundary layer are used to infer the North‐South Ez component of the local electric field. It is shown that Ez is generally a substantial component of the field and that it reverses its sign from the dawn to the dusk side of the northern magnetotail between XSM=−15 RE and XSM=−23 RE.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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