Large-scale distributions of ionospheric horizontal and field-aligned currents inferred from EISCAT

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1284-1296

  Fontaine, D ^a   Peymirat, C ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0042857291     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-996-1284-z     Document Type: Article

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