Plasma refilling rates for L = 2.3-3.8 flux tubes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Obana, Yuki ^a,b   Menk, Frederick W ^a   Yoshikawa, Ichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 77949433383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014191     Document Type: Article

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