Substorm growth and expansion onset as observed with ideal ground-spacecraft THEMIS coverage

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sergeev, V ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Kubyshkina, M ^a   Donovan, E ^c   Zhou, X Z ^b   Runov, A ^b   Singer, H ^d   McFadden, J ^e   Nakamura, R ^f  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

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EID: 79851489431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA015689     Document Type: Article

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