Thermospheric mass density variations during geomagnetic storms and a prediction model based on the merging electric field

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1633-1645

  Liu, R ^a,b   Luhr H ^a   Doornbos, E ^c   Ma, S Y ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Ionosphere magnetosphere interactions); Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Thermospheric dynamics)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC STORM; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SOLAR WIND; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 77956377433     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-1633-2010     Document Type: Article

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