A flexible, IMF dependent model of high-latitude electric potentials having "space weather" applications

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2549-2552

  Weimer, D R ^a,b  

^a Mission Research Corporation Nashua

^b MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; LINEAR REGRESSION; SOLAR WIND; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS; SOLAR SYSTEM; TELEMETERING;

FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; HARMONIC COEFFICIENTS; HIGH-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SPHERICAL HARMONIC COEFFICIENT; HIGH-LATITUDE ELECTRIC POTENTIALS; SPACE-WEATHER APPLICATIONS; UPSTREAM SOLAR WIND;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 0030244885     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02255     Document Type: Article

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