Dayside field-aligned current source regions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Wing, Simon ^a   Ohtani, Shin Ichi ^a   Newell, Patrick T ^a   Higuchi, Tomoyuki ^b   Ueno, Genta ^b   Weygand, James M ^c  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 77958579013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA015837     Document Type: Article

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