Magnetic energy storage and the nightside magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4083-4086

  Horton, W ^a   Pekker, M ^a   Doxas, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY STORAGE; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MAGNETIC ENERGY STORAGE; SOLAR WIND;

GEOMAGNETISM;

MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0032216334     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900043     Document Type: Article

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