Modeling a space weather event from the Sun to the Earth: CME generation and interplanetary propagation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A2, 2004, Pages

  Manchester IV, Ward B ^a   Gombosi, Tamas I ^a   Roussev, Ilia ^a   Ridley, Aaron ^a   De Zeeuw, Darren L ^a   Sokolov, I V ^a   Powell, Kenneth G ^a   Tóth, Gábor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Coronal mass ejection; Magnetohydrodynamics; Space weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744397883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010150     Document Type: Article

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