Studies of dayside magnetopause erosion on geostationary orbit using WIND and GOES data (1996-1999)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4678, Issue , 2002, Pages 523-531

  Mühlbachler, Stefan ^a,b   Farrugia, Charles J ^c   Biernat, Helfried K ^a,b   Semenov, Vladimir S ^d   Erkaev, Nikolai V ^e   Torbert, Roy B ^c   Vogl, Dieter F ^a   Langmayr, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELING   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Geostationary orbit; Magnetic field line erosion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ORBITS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SPACECRAFT;

GEOSTATIONARY ORBITS; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE EROSIONS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0036029696     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458485     Document Type: Article

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