Comparing a spherical harmonic model of the global electric field distribution with Astrid-2 observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A11, 2002, Pages

  Eriksson, S ^a,c   Blomberg, L G ^a   Weimer, D R ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Global electric field modeling; Ionospheric convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142276362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009313     Document Type: Article

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