Development of parallel electric fields at the plasma sheet boundary layer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Lysak, Robert L ^a   Song, Yan ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016424     Document Type: Article

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