Pressure and entropy changes in the flow-braking region during magnetic field dipolarization

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Dubyagin, S ^a   Sergeev, V ^a   Apatenkov, S ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Nakamura, R ^c   McFadden, J ^d   Larson, D ^d   Bonnell, J ^d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 77958595480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA015625     Document Type: Article

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