Heliospheric current sheet inclinations at Venus and Earth

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 642-649

  Ma, G ^a   Marubashi, K ^a   Maruyama, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interplanetary physics (interplanetary magnetic fields; sources of solar wind)

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544265141     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0642-z     Document Type: Article

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