Ionospheric electric potentials for substorms calculated from a solar wind-magnetosphere MHD simulation and a magnetogram inversion technique

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A1, 2004, Pages

  Nakata, H ^a,b   Shinohara, M ^a,c   Kamide, Y ^a   Ogino, T ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global MHD simulation; Ionospheric electric potentials; Magnetogram inversion technique; Magnetosphere ionosphere coupling; Substorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549111733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009743     Document Type: Article

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