Fast compression of a current sheet during externally driven magnetic reconnection

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 521-526

  Ono, Y ^a   Inomoto, M ^a   Ueda, Y ^a   Matsuyama, T ^a   Murata, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0013380069     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353264     Document Type: Article

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