Method of characteristics in spherical geometry applied to a Harang-discontinuity situation

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 413-424

  Amm, O ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Current systems; Electric fields and currents; Instruments and techniques; Ionosphere; Magnetospheric physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542421370     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-0413-2     Document Type: Article

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