On the improvement of analytical calculations of collisional auroral ion velocity distributions using recent Monte Carlo results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A3, 1998, Pages 4079-4095

  Gaimard, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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