Proton ring current pitch angle distributions: Comparison of simulations with CRRES observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A8, 1999, Pages 17379-17389

  Chen, Margaret W ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

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