Shear flow instability in the dipolar magnetosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A8, 1999, Pages 17323-17334

  Voronkov, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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