North‐South Asymmetric Nightside Distorted Transpolar Arcs Within A Framework of Deformed Magnetosphere‐Ionosphere Coupling: IMF‐By Dependence, Ionospheric Currents, and Magnetotail Reconnection
Hubert, Benoît ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Shi, Quan-Qi
Wang, Yong-Fu
Grocott, Adrian
Degeling, Alexander
Tian, An-Min
Zhou, Xu-Zhi
Yue, Chao
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English
Title :
North‐South Asymmetric Nightside Distorted Transpolar Arcs Within A Framework of Deformed Magnetosphere‐Ionosphere Coupling: IMF‐By Dependence, Ionospheric Currents, and Magnetotail Reconnection
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