Contributions of the external field to the observatory annual means and a proposal for their corrections

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-257

  Verbanac, Giuli ^a,b   Lühr, Hermann ^a   Rother, Martin ^a   Korte, Monika ^a   Mandea, Mioara ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

External field; Geomagnetic field; Ionospheric currents; Magnetic field models; Observatory annual means; Ring current

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 34347355588     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353102     Document Type: Article

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