Location of high-altitude cusp during steady solar wind conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue A10, 2001, Pages 21109-21122

  Palmroth, M ^a   Laakso, H ^b,c   Pulkkinen, T I ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c ESA Space Science Department   (Netherlands)

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