Ionospheric electric field variations during a geomagnetic storm simulated by a coupled magnetosphere ionosphere thermosphere (CMIT) model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Wang, WenBin ^a,b   Lei, Jiuhou ^a   Burns, Alan G ^a   Wiltberger, Michael ^a   Richmond, Arthur D ^a   Solomon, Stanley C ^a   Killeen, Timothy L ^a   Talaat, Elsayed R ^c   Anderson, David N ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

ACTIVE PERIODS; DRIFT VELOCITIES; GEOMAGNETIC STORMS; HIGH LATITUDES; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC EQUATORS; MAGNETOSPHERIC CONVECTIONS; NEUTRAL WINDS; PENETRATION ELECTRIC FIELDS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; VARIATIONS OF; WIND CONDITIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 57849100758     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035155     Document Type: Article

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