Multi-fluid simulations of the magnetosphere: The identification of the geopause and its variation with IMF

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4441-4444

  Winglee, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS; SOLAR WIND; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY;

INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERIC PLASMAS; MULTI-FLUID SIMULATIONS; MULTI-FLUIDS; NORTHWARD IMF; SOLAR WIND DENSITY; STATISTICAL STUDY; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF); SOLAR WINDS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0032535733     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900217     Document Type: Article

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