Low-altitude signatures of magnetotail reconnection

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A8, 1999, Pages 17311-17321

  Sotirelis, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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