Ordering the Earth's magnetic field by geocentric magnetospheric equatorial coordinates: Lessons from HEOS

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A8, 1999, Pages 17449-17457

  Dunlop, Malcolm W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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