MHD effects of the solar wind flow around planets

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 201-209

  Biernat, H K ^a,b   Erkaev, N V ^c   Farrugia, C J ^d   Vogl, D F ^a,b   Schaffenberger, W ^a  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0033843662     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-7-201-2000     Document Type: Article

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