Effects of decreasing ionospheric pressure and the plasma mixing recess on the solar wind interaction with non-magnetized planets

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1577-1586

  Tanaka, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLANETS; PLASMAS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET FLUX; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD; IONOPAUSE; IONOSPHERIC PRESSURE; IONOTAILS; PLANETARY IONOSPHERE; PLASMA MIXING RECESS; SOLAR WIND INTERACTION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0033690213     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00107-1     Document Type: Article

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