Inner magnetospheric modeling with the rice convection model

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 175-196

  Toffoletto, Frank ^a   Sazykin, Stanislav ^a   Spiro, Robert ^a   Wolf, Richard ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetosphere inner; Numerical modeling; Plasma convection; Ring current

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC FIELD; FLUID FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL;

EID: 0142091122     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025532008047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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