MHD simulations of the solar wind interaction with Mercury

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Ip, Wing Huen ^a   Kopp, Andreas ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetosphere; Mercury; MHD simulations; Polar caps; Solar wind interactions; Space weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549098180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009171     Document Type: Article

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