Validation of the Space Weather Modeling Framework using observations from CHAMP and DMSP

Space Weather

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Wang, H ^a,b   Ridley, A J ^a   Luhr H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 77952591430     PISSN: 15427390     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007SW000355     Document Type: Article

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