A state-of-the-art picture of substorm-associated evolution of the near-Earth magnetotail obtained from superposed epoch analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Miyashita, Y ^a   Machida, S ^b   Kamide, Y ^b,h   Nagata, D ^b   Liou, K ^c,i   Fujimoto, M ^a   Ieda, A ^d   Saito, M H ^a   Russell, C T ^e   Christon, S P ^f   Nose M ^b   Frey, H U ^g   Shinohara, I ^a   Mukai, T ^a   Saito, Y ^a   Hayakawa, H ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Focused Analysis and Research   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 63149172820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013225     Document Type: Article

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