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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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12 Sep 2013
Regular paper |
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Cluster observation of few-hour-scale evolution of structured plasma in the inner magnetosphere
M. Yamauchi
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, P.O. Box 812, 98128 Kiruna, Sweden
I. Dandouras
University of Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France
CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (IRAP), BP 44346, 31028, Toulouse cedex 4, France
H. Rème
University of Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France
CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (IRAP), BP 44346, 31028, Toulouse cedex 4, France
R. Lundin
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Umeå, Sweden
L. M. Kistler
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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