Surface electric fields for North America during historical geomagnetic storms

Space Weather

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 451-462

  Wei, Lisa H ^a   Homeier, Nicole ^a   Gannon, Jennifer L ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

geomagnetic disturbances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883728500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/swe.20073     Document Type: Article

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