Magnetotail structure and its internal particle dynamics during northward IMF

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 105, Issue , 1998, Pages 77-95

  Ashour Abdalla, M ^a   Raeder, J ^a   El Alaoui, M ^a   Peroomian, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0039088841     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM105p0077     Document Type: Chapter

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