Continuous magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6966, 2003, Pages 533-537

  Frey, H U ^a   Phan, T D ^a   Fuselier, S A ^b   Mende, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SOLAR-WIND PLASMA;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY; IONOSPHERE; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; WIND;

EID: 0346243867     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02084     Document Type: Article

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