A Note on the Dipole Coordinates
Geophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
A couple of orthogonal coordinates for dipole geometry are proposed for numerical simulations of plasma geophysics in the Earth's dipole magnetic field. These coordinates have proper metric profiles along field lines in contrast to the standard dipole coordinate system that is commonly used in analytical studies for dipole geometry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0408133,
title = {A Note on the Dipole Coordinates},
author = {Akira Kageyama and Tooru Sugiyama and Kunihiko Watanabe and Tetsuya Sato},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0408133},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Corrected the vertical scale of Fig. 1. Accepted for publication in Computers & Geosciences