Day-night asymmetry of polar outflow due to the kinetic effects of anisotropic photoelectrons

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 104, Issue , 1998, Pages 97-106

  Tam, Sunny W Y ^a   Yasseen, Fareed ^a,b   Chang, Tom ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Germany)

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EID: 36148932526     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM104p0097     Document Type: Chapter

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