Entry of solar wind plasma into the magnetosphere: Observations encounter simulation

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 104, Issue , 1998, Pages 73-84

  Newell, Patrick T ^a   Wing, Simon ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0042010393     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM104p0073     Document Type: Chapter

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