Shift of the mean magnetic field values: Effect of scatter due to secular variation and errors

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-44

  Hatakeyama, Tadahiro ^a,b   Kono, Masaru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SECULAR VARIATION;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0011255547     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352360     Document Type: Article

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