Cluster Detection of Rolled-up Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices at the Magnetopause: Comparison with Simulations
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1Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan 3Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA 4Centre d’Etude Spatiale Rayonnements, Toulouse, France 5Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College, London, UK 6Space Sciences Division, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK
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تاریخ انتشار 2005