Particle precipitation characteristics in the dayside four-sheet field-aligned current structure

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ueno, Genta ^a   Higuchi, Tomoyuki ^a   Ohtani, Shin Ichi ^b,c   Newell, Patrick T ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

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

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548357419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA012036     Document Type: Article

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