A mechanism for the loading-unloading substorm cycle missing in MHD global magnetospheric simulation models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Klimas, Alex J ^a   Uritsky, Vadim M ^b   Vassiliadis, Dimitris ^a   Baker, Daniel N ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERIC SIMULATION MODELS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 25444433142     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022916     Document Type: Article

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