Coupling of a global MHD code and an inner magnetospheric model: Initial results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A12, 2004, Pages

  De Zeeuw, Darren L ^a   Sazykin, Stanislav ^b   Wolf, Richard A ^b   Gombosi, Tamas I ^a   Ridley, Aaron J ^a   Tóth, Gabor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global magnetosphere; Inner magnetosphere; Magnetohydrodynamics; Model coupling; Space weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646805100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010366     Document Type: Article

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