Monitoring auroral electrojets with satellite data

Space Weather

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 509-519

  Vennerstrom, S ^a   Moretto, T ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

auroral electrojets; magnetic storms; monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885210528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/swe.20090     Document Type: Article

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