Polar cap potential saturation during large geomagnetic storms

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1804-1808

  Raeder, J ^a   Lu, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Global simulation; Large geomagnetic storms; Polar cap potential saturation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS;

GLOBAL SIMULATION; LARGE GEOMAGNETIC STORMS; POLAR CAP POTENTIAL SATURATION;

GEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 27844508603     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2004.05.010     Document Type: Article

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