Entropy antidiffusion instability and formation of a thin current sheet during geomagnetic substorms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A12, 1998, Pages 29419-29428

  Lee, L C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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