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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-32-689-2014
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-32-689-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Regular paper
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27 Jun 2014
Regular paper |
| 27 Jun 2014
Magnetospheric magnetic field modelling for the 2011 and 2012 HST Saturn aurora campaigns – implications for auroral source regions
E. S. Belenkaya
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1(2), Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
S. W. H. Cowley
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
C. J. Meredith
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
J. D. Nichols
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
V. V. Kalegaev
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1(2), Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
I. I. Alexeev
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1(2), Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
O. G. Barinov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1(2), Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
W. O. Barinova
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1(2), Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
M. S. Blokhina
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1(2), Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
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