An algorithm for estimating field-aligned currents from single spacecraft magnetic field measurements: a diagnostic tool applied to freja satellite data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1369-1376

  Lühr, Hermann ^a,b   Warnecke, Jörg F ^a,c   Rother, Martin K A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURRENT DENSITY; DATA REDUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

FREJA SATELLITE DATA; STATIONARY CURRENT GEOMETRIES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 0030288754     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.544560     Document Type: Article

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