Collisionless driven reconnection in an open system

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 439-445

  Horiuchi, Ritoku ^a,b   Pei, Wenbing ^b   Sato, Tetsuya ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

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GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0006842150     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353254     Document Type: Article

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