Solar wind dynamic pressure forced oscillation of the magnetosphere- ionosphere coupling system: A numerical simulation of directly pressure-forced geomagnetic pulsations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Motoba, Tetsuo ^a   Fujita, Shigeru ^b,c   Kikuchi, Takashi ^a   Tanaka, Takashi ^c,d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 38349099301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA012193     Document Type: Article

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