Assessment of Joule heating for the observed distributions of high-lattitude electric fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Golovchanskaya, I V ^a  

^a POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HEATING; JOULE HEATING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FIELD VARIABILITIES; GAUSSIANITY; HEATING PATTERNS; HIGH LATITUDES; MEAN FIELDS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS; RESIDUAL FIELDS; SQUARE AMPLITUDES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AMPLITUDE; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEATING; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 56449095440     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034413     Document Type: Article

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