Fig. 11.

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Cartoon demonstrating the two possible scenarios where a globally oblique or quasi-parallel shock can behave as a quasi-perpendicular shock locally. Panel a: Rippled shock front encountering oblique field lines. Panel b: Planar shock front encountering non-ideal magnetic field lines at two consecutive times: t1 and t2.

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