Electron scattering loss in Earth's inner magnetosphere 1. Dominant physical processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A2, 1998, Pages 2385-2396

  Abel, Bob ^a   Thorne, Richard M ^b  

^a Department of Applied Physics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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