Empirical reconstruction and long-duration tracking of the magnetospheric boundary in single- and multi-spacecraft contexts

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1355-1369

  De Keyser, Johan ^a   Roth, M ^a   Dunlop, M W ^b   Reme H ^c   Owen, C J ^d   Paschmann, G ^e  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (Magnetopause, cusp, and boundary layers; magnetospheric configuration and dynamics; instruments and techniques)

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOPAUSE;

EID: 23644435138     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-1355-2005     Document Type: Article

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