Cluster observations of an auroral potential and associated field-aligned current reconfiguration during thinning of the plasma sheet boundary layer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Marklund, G ^a   Johansson, T ^a   Lileo, S ^a   Karlsson, T ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 34547935961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA011804     Document Type: Article

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