Electric current approach to magnetospheric physics and the distinction between current disruption and magnetic reconnection

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 118, Issue , 2000, Pages 31-40

  Lui, A T Y ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 85040244868     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM118p0031     Document Type: Chapter

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