Cluster observations of the high-latitude magnetopause and cusp: Initial results from the CIS ion instruments

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 12 PART II, 2001, Pages 1545-1566

  Bosqued, J M ^a   Phan, T D ^b   Dandouras, I ^a   Escoubet, C P ^c   Reme H ^a   Balogh, A ^d   Dunlop, M W ^d   Alcayde D ^a   Amata, E ^e   Bavassano Cattaneo, M B ^e   Bruno, R ^e   Carlson, C ^b   DiLellis, A M ^e   Eliasson, L ^f   Formisano, V ^e   Kistler, L M ^g   Klecker, B ^h   Korth, A ⁱ   Kucharek, H ^h   Lundin, R ^f   McCarthy, M ^j   McFadden, J P ^b   Mobius E ^g   Parks, G K ^b   Sauvaud, J A ^a   more..

^a IRAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INAF   (Italy)

^f SISP   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (magnetopause, cusp, and boundary layers; magnetosheath) Space plasma physics (magnetic reconnection)

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