Electrodynamics of the poleward auroral border observed by Polar during a substorm on April 1998

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 5927-5943

  Ober, Daniel M ^d   Maynard, N C ^d   Burke, W J ^a,c   Peterson, W K ^d,e   Sigwarth, J B ^b   Frank, L A ^b   Scudder, J D ^b   Hughess, W J ^c   Russells, C T ^f  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^e LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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