Self-organized branching of magnetotail current systems near the percolation threshold

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 6291-6307

  Milovanov, Alexander V ^a   Zelenyi, Lev M ^a   Zimbardo, Gaetano ^b   Veltri, Pierluigi ^b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

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EID: 29444436253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja000446     Document Type: Article

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