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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
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