Pressure anisotropy and By in the magnetotail current sheet

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 118, Issue , 2000, Pages 323-330

  Kaufmann, Richard L ^a   Ball, Bryan M ^a   Paterson, W R ^b   Frank, L A ^b  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 1642628693     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM118p0323     Document Type: Chapter

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