The relation between dayside local Poynting flux enhancement and cusp reconnection

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Li, Wenhui ^a   Knipp, Delores ^b,c   Lei, Jiuhou ^c   Raeder, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

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EID: 80051618410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA016566     Document Type: Article

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