The relation between the northern polar cap and auroral electrojet geomagnetic indices in the wintertime

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 2781-2784

  Vassiliadis, D ^a,d   Angelopoulos, V ^b   Baker, D N ^c   Klimas, A J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GEOPHYSICS; HALL EFFECT; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC FILTERS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ALUMINUM; GEOMAGNETISM; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

AURORAL ELECTROJET GEOMAGNETIC INDICES; IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY; LINEAR AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODELS; NORTHERN POLAR CAP; WINTERTIME;

GEOMAGNETISM; FORECASTING;

AURORAL ELECTROJETS; AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODEL; FIELD ALIGNED CURRENTS; GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES; GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; GEOMAGNETIC INDICES; IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY; MOVING AVERAGE FILTER;

EID: 0030269122     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02575     Document Type: Article

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