Magnetic cloud-bow shock interaction: WIND and IMP-8 observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1195-1198

  Lepping, R P ^a   Szabo, A ^a   Ogilvie, K W ^a   Fitzenreiter, R J ^a   Lazarus, A J ^b   Steinberg, J T ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA SHEATHS; PLASMA SHOCK WAVES; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; MAGNETISM;

EARTHS BOW SHOCK; FLUX ROPE STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC CLOUD; MAGNETOSHEATH;

CLOUDS; MAGNETOPLASMA;

BOW SHOCKS; IMP-8 OBSERVATIONS; MAGNETIC CLOUDS; MAGNETIC FIELD FLUX; MAGNETOSHEATHS; SURFACE NORMALS;

EID: 0030141357     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01287     Document Type: Article

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