Polar cap index comparisons with AMIE cross polar cap potential, electric field, and polar cap area

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Ridley, A J ^a   Kihn, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE;

ELECTRODYNAMIC PROCESSES; POLAR CAP INDEX (PCI); POLAR CAP POTENTIALS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; IONOSPHERE;

EID: 3042737924     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019113     Document Type: Article

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