Scale-dependent anisotropy of magnetic fluctuations in the Earth's plasma sheet

Multiscale Coupling of Sun-Earth Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 29-38

  Voros Z ^a   Baumjohann, W ^a   Nakamura, R ^a   Runov, A ^a   Volwerk, M ^a   Balogh, A ^b   Reme H ^c  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IRAP   (France)

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EID: 84882520542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044451881-1/50003-4     Document Type: Chapter

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