Velocity shear instability and plasma billows at the Earth's magnetic boundary

The Kelvin-Helmoltz instability (KH) with formation of vortices appears in a wide variety of terrestrial, interplanetary, and astrophysical contexts. We study a series of iterated rolled-up coherent plasma structures (15) that flow in the equatorial Earth's boundary layer (BL), observed on Octo...

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Autores principales: Gratton, F.T., Gnavi, G., Farrugia, C.J., Bilbao, L., Torbert, R.
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17426588_v370_n1_p_Gratton
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