Equatorial distributions of the plasma sheet ions, their electric and magnetic drifts, and magnetic fields under different interplanetary magnetic field Bz conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Chih Ping ^a   Lyons, Larry R ^a   Weygand, James M ^b   Nagai, Tsugunobu ^c   McEntire, Richard W ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947492375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011545     Document Type: Article

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