A THEMIS multicase study of dipolarization fronts in the magnetotail plasma sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Runov, A ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^a   Zhou, X Z ^a   Zhang, X J ^a   Li, S ^a   Plaschke, F ^b   Bonnell, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 79953014152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016316     Document Type: Article

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