Cluster vision of the magnetotail current sheet on a macroscale

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 110, Issue A6, 2005, Pages

  Petrukovich, A A ^a   Baumjohann, W ^b   Nakamura, R ^b   Runov, A ^b   Balogh, A ^c  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33644573172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010825     Document Type: Article

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