Structure of the lunar wake: Two-dimensional global hybrid simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Trávníček, Pavel ^a   Hellinger, Petr ^a   Schriver, David ^b   Bale, Stuart D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBULENCE;

ANISOTROPIC PLASMA; GYROFREQUENCIES; LUNAR WAKES; SOLAR WIND;

WAKES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MOON; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 20044374555     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022243     Document Type: Article

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