Polar-Interball coordinated observations of plasma and magnetic field characteristics in the regions of the northern and southern distant cusps

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A5, 2002, Pages

  Dubinin, E ^a,b   Skalsky, A ^c   Song, P ^a,i   Savin, S ^c   Kozyra, J ^a,i   Moore, T E ^d   Russell, C T ^e   Chandler, M O ^f   Fedorov, A ^c   Avanov, L ^c   Sauvaud, J A ^g,j   Friedel, R H W ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ and Space Sciences   (United States)

^j IRAP   (France)

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Author keywords

1835 sapace plasma physics: Magnetic reconnection; 2724 magnetospheric physics: Magnetopause, cusp, and dounaary layers; 2784 magnetospheric physics: Solar wind magnetosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012489507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA900068     Document Type: Article

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