Hybrid simulation of the curved dayside magnetopause during southward IMF

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3273-3276

  Omidi, N ^a   Karimabadi, H ^a   Krauss Varban, D ^a  

^a SciberNet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; POLARIZATION; TOPOLOGY; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

MAGNETIC EQUATOR; MAGNETOPAUSE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0032173270     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02484     Document Type: Article

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