Low Mach number bow shock locations during a magnetic cloud event: Observations and magnetohydrodynamic simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  El Alaoui, Mostafa ^a   Richard, Robert L ^a   Ashour Abdalla, Maha ^a   Chen, Margaret W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT; WIND EFFECTS;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF); MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD) SIMULATIONS; SOLAR WINDS;

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 18144432211     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018788     Document Type: Article

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