Properties of the boundary layer potential for northward interplanetary magnetic field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Sundberg, K A T ^a   Blomberg, L G ^a   Cumnock, J A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION PATTERNS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; MEAN VALUES; NORTHWARD IMF; SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS; SOLAR WIND VELOCITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL STUDY;

CELL MEMBRANES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 68949107317     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038625     Document Type: Article

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