Space environment of Mercury at the time of the first MESSENGER flyby: Solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field modeling of upstream conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Baker, Daniel N ^a   Odstrcil, Dusan ^a,b   Anderson, Brian J ^c   Arge, C Nick ^d   Benna, Mehdi ^e   Gloeckler, George ^f   Raines, Jim M ^f   Schriver, David ^g   Slavin, James A ^e   Solomon, Sean C ^h   Killen, Rosemary M ⁱ   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 72649105712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014287     Document Type: Article

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