Disappearance of large-scale field-aligned current systems: Implications for the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 118, Issue , 2000, Pages 253-259

  Ohtani, S ^a   Higuchi, T ^b   Sotirelis, T ^a   Newell, P T ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

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EID: 79952748954     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM118p0253     Document Type: Chapter

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