Articles | Volume 35, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-505-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-505-2017
Regular paper
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28 Mar 2017
Regular paper |  | 28 Mar 2017

Magnetic reconnection during steady magnetospheric convection and other magnetospheric modes

Benoit Hubert, Jean-Claude Gérard, Steve E. Milan, and Stanley W. H. Cowley

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