The Magnetospheric Sash and the Cross-Tail S

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1605-1608

  White, Willard W ^a   Siscoe, George L ^b   Erickson, Gary M ^b   Kaymaz, Zerefsan ^c   Maynard, Nelson C ^a   Siebert, Keith D ^a   Sonnerup, Bengt U Ö ^d   Weimer, Daniel R ^a  

^a MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; GEOMETRY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SEPARATORS; WINDOWS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANTIPARALLEL FIELDS; FIELD FEATURES; FIELD LINES; HIGH-LATITUDE MAGNETOPAUSE; MHD SIMULATION; NEUTRAL SHEETS; SYMMETRIC EXTENSION; WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETOPAUSE; METEOROLOGY;

CROSS TAIL; MAGNETOSPHERIC SASH;

EID: 0032071974     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50865     Document Type: Article

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