Formation of imbedded rotational discontinuities with nearly field aligned normals

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A1, 1998, Pages 349-365

  Vasquez, Bernard J ^a   Hollweg, Joseph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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