Statistical visualization of Earth's magnetotail during substorms by means of multidimensional superposed epoch analysis with Geotail data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A11, 2000, Pages 25291-25303

  Machida, S ^a   Ieda, A ^b   Mukai, T ^c   Saito, Y ^c   Nishida, A ^c,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

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