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Simultaneous observations of a southward directed magnetic field and a plasma flowing away from the earth across the neutral sheet at lunar distance during two weak magnetic bays. These observations are shown to be in good agreement with predictions based on magnetic merging models for the generation of magnetic substorms.
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Burke et al. (1973) studied this question.
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