Initial Venus Express magnetic field observations of the magnetic barrier at solar minimum

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 790-795

  Zhang, T L ^a,f   Delva, M ^a   Baumjohann, W ^a   Volwerk, M ^a   Russell, C T ^b   Barabash, S ^c   Balikhin, M ^d   Pope, S ^d   Glassmeier, K H ^e   Wang, C ^f   Kudela, K ^g  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Flux rope; Ionopause; Magnetic barrier; Magnetized ionosphere; Magnetopause

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

MAGNETIC BARRIERS; MAGNETIZED IONOSPHERES; SOLAR MAXIMUM;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 42649144120     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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