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04 Oct 2011
Characteristics of the terrestrial field-aligned current system
J. W. Gjerloev
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, USA
Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, 5007, Norway
S. Ohtani
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, USA
T. Iijima
Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan
B. Anderson
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, USA
J. Slavin
NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
G. Le
NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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