Initial Polar magnetic field experiment observations of the low-altitude polar magnetosphere: Monitoring the ring current with polar orbiting spacecraft

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A8, 1998, Pages 17345-17350

  Le, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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