Bursty Bulk Flows

Date: 13 December 2004
Satellite: Cluster
Depicts: Diagram of Cluster and Bursty Bulk Flows
Copyright: Courtesy of Dr. Martin Volwerk, Space Research Institute/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
Excerpt of Figure 5 from [Volwerk et al., 2004c].
- Top panel: reconnection takes place in the far tail, and Cluster is located in a compressed magnetotail
- Bottom panel: Cluster observes Bursty Bulk Flows or BBF
Last Update: 1 September 2019