Mesospheric ionization during substorm growth phase | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 12, 2022


Article Number		18
Number of page(s)		16
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2022012
Published online		06 June 2022

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