Magnetospheric configuration

Handbook of Atmospheric Electrodynamics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2017, Pages 333-388

  Voigt, Gerd Hannes ^a  

^a AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE;

GLOBAL CONFIGURATION; MAGNETOSPHERIC CONFIGURATIONS; MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE TREATMENT; SOLAR WIND PLASMAS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 58949102328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203713297     Document Type: Chapter

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