Improved horizontal wind model HWM07 enables estimation of equatorial ionospheric electric fields from satellite magnetic measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Alken, Patrick ^a,b   Maus, Stefan ^b   Emmert, John ^c   Drob, Douglas P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FORECASTING; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SATELLITES;

CURRENT PROFILING; EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET; EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; F-REGION; IONOSPHERIC CURRENTS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELDS; LOCAL STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS; NEUTRAL WINDS; WIND MODELING; ZONAL WINDS;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; E REGION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROJET; F REGION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODELING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 49849094782     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033580     Document Type: Article

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