A new tool for determining ionospheric currents from magnetic satellite data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3635-3638

  Olsen, Nils ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SATELLITES; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

AURORAL ELECTROJETS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HIGH LATITUDES; IONOSPHERIC CURRENT; LOW ALTITUDE SATELLITES; MAGNETOSPHERIC RING CURRENT; SATELLITE DATA; TIME DEVELOPMENT;

ORBITS; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

IONOSPHERIC CURRENT; MAGNETIC SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 0030416241     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02896     Document Type: Article

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