Application and validation of the spherical elementary currents systems technique for deriving ionospheric equivalent currents with the North American and Greenland ground magnetometer arrays

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Weygand, James M ^a   Amm, Olaf ^b   Viljanen, A ^b   Angelopoulos, V ^a   Murr, D ^c   Engebretson, M J ^c   Gleisner, H ^d   Mann, I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 79952475935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016177     Document Type: Article

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