The distant cusp and the surrounding magnetopause: A view in snapshots from polar

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1353-1362

  Popielawska, B ^a   Gustafsson, G ^b  

^a Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 0037997600     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00948-1     Document Type: Article

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