Coupling of dipolarization front flow bursts to substorm expansion phase phenomena within the magnetosphere and ionosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lyons, L R ^a   Nishimura, Y ^a   Xing, X ^a   Runov, A ^a   Angelopoulos, V ^a   Donovan, E ^b   Kikuchi, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84857838236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA017265     Document Type: Article

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