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Formation of Thin Current Sheets and Other Recent Developments in Magnetospheric Activity

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Schindler, K. Formation of Thin Current Sheets and Other Recent Developments in Magnetospheric Activity. Astrophysics and Space Science 264, 289–302 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002464002003

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