Substorm current wedge driven by plasma flow vortices: THEMIS observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Keiling, A ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Runov, A ^b   Weygand, J ^b   Apatenkov, S V ^c   Mende, S ^a   McFadden, J ^a   Larson, D ^a   Amm, O ^d   Glassmeier, K H ^e   Auster, H U ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

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EID: 70349436368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014114     Document Type: Article

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