Statistical chaxacteristics of field-aligned currents in the earth’s inner magnetosphere

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 118, Issue , 2000, Pages 237-243

  Chun, Francis K ^a   Russell, Christopher T ^b  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84905415145     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016102     Document Type: Chapter

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