Are sawtooth oscillations of energetic plasma particle fluxes caused by periodic substorms or driven by solar wind pressure enhancements?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 110, Issue A7, 2005, Pages

  Huang, Chao Song ^a   Reeves, Geoff D ^b   Le, Guan ^c   Yumoto, Kiyo ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33746351736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011018     Document Type: Article

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