Plasma pressure gradients and large-scale currents in the near-Earth magnetotail: current sheet thinning and dipolarization


Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Andrei Runov, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Anatoli A Petrukovich, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia