Modeling Inner Magnetospheric Electric Fields: Latest Self-Consistent Results

The Inner Magnetosphere: Physics and Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 263-269

  Sazykin, Stanislav ^a   Spiro, Robert W ^a   Wolf, Richard A ^a   Toffoletto, Frank R ^a   Tsyganenko, Nikolai A ^b   Goldstein, J ^c   Hairston, Marc R ^d  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics Simulation methods

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS;

EMPIRICAL MODEL; EVENT SIMULATION; GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERIC MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS; PLASMA BOUNDARY; RICE CONVECTION MODELS;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 84953714582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/155GM28     Document Type: Chapter

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