Magnetopause stand-off distance in dependence on the magnetosheath and solar wind parameters

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 388-396

  Pudovkin, M I ^a   Besser, B P ^b   Zaitseva, S A ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Österreichische Akad der Wiss ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Cusp and boundary layers Magnetosheath; Magnetopause; Magnetospheric physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542421369     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-0388-z     Document Type: Article

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