Magnetopause poleward of the cusp: Comparison of plasma and magnetic signature of the boundary for southward and northward directed interplanetary magnetic field

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2799-2808

  Popielawska, B ^a   Sandahl, I ^b   Styazhkin, V A ^c   Stenuit, H ^d   Zakharov, A V ^e  

^a Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

^d IRAP   (France)

^e Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

SPACE RESEARCH;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 0036944186     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)80416-1     Document Type: Article

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