Dayside polar CUSP/cleft aurora: Morphology and dynamics

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 22, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 675-684

  Sandholt, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 0006362281     PISSN: 00791946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-1946(97)00195-X     Document Type: Article

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