MHD simulations of the response of high-latitude potential patterns and polar cap boundaries to sudden southward turnings of the interplanetary magnetic field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 967-970

  Lopez, R E ^a   Wiltberger, M ^a   Lyon, J G ^b   Goodrich, C C ^a   Papadopoulos, K ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b 6127 Wilder Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

HIGH LATITUDE POTENTIAL PATTERNS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; POLAR CAP BOUNDARIES; SOUTHWARD TURNINGS;

MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

BOUNDARY MOTION; CONVECTION PATTERNS; FIELD LINES; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; LOCAL TIME; MHD SIMULATION; POLAR CAP;

EID: 0033117491     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900113     Document Type: Article

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