On continuous versus discontinuous neutral lines at the dayside magnetopause for southward interplanetary magnetic field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Petrinec, S M ^a   Fuselier, S A ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PROTONS; SPACECRAFT; WIND;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS (IMF);

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 0042285089     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016565     Document Type: Article

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