Swarm SCARF equatorial electric field inversion chain

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1309-1317

  Alken, Patrick ^a,b   Maus, Stefan ^a   Vigneron, Pierre ^b   Sirol, Olivier ^b   Hulot, Gauthier ^b  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Electric fields; Equatorial ionosphere; Space magnetometry; Swarm

Indexed keywords

E REGION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROJET; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOMETER; ORBIT DETERMINATION; REAL TIME; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 84897583937     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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