Continental scale modelling of geomagnetically induced currents

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Viljanen, Ari ^a   Pirjola, Risto ^a,b   Wik, Magnus ^c   Ádám, Antal ^d   Prácser, Ernö ^d   Sakharov, Yaroslav ^e   Katkalov, Juri ^e  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^c NeuroSpace   (Sweden)

^d MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences   (Hungary)

^e POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

7904: geomagnetically induced currents (GIC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879740830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21157251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2012017     Document Type: Article

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