Including gap region field-aligned currents and magnetospheric currents in the MHD calculation of ground-based magnetic field perturbations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Yu, Yiqun ^a   Ridley, Aaron J ^a   Welling, Dan T ^a,b   Tóth, Gabor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 77955572611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014869     Document Type: Article

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