Cross-field current instability as a catalyst of the explosive reconnection in the geomagnetotail

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A4, 1999, Pages 6941-6951

  Sitnov, M I ^a   Lui, A T Y ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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