Near-simultaneous bow shock crossings by WIND and IMP 8 on December 1, 1994

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1207-1210

  Slavin, J A ^a   Szabo, A ^a   Peredo, M ^a   Lepping, R P ^a   Fitzenreiter, R J ^a   Ogilvie, K W ^a   Owen, C J ^b   Steinberg, J T ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; SPACECRAFT; EARTHQUAKES; MAGNETISM; SOLAR SYSTEM; WIND;

BOW SHOCK; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; RAM PRESSURE; SOLAR WIND;

SHOCK WAVES; PLASMA SHOCK WAVES;

AVERAGE VALUES; DOWNSTREAM DISTANCES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; RADIAL DISTANCE; SHOCK LOCATION; SHOCK STRUCTURE; SOLAR WIND SPEED; SUN-EARTH LINE;

EID: 0030147765     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01351     Document Type: Article

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