Space Weather opportunities from the Swarm mission including near real time applications

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1375-1383

  Stolle, Claudia ^a,c   Floberghagen, Rune ^b   Lühr, Hermann ^c   Maus, Stefan ^d   Knudsen, D J ^e   Alken, Patrick ^d   Doornbos, Eelco ^f   Hamilton, Brian ^g   Thomson, Alan W P ^g   Visser, Pieter N ^f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic field; Ionosphere; Low Earth orbiting satellites; Solar terrestrial coupling; Space weather; Swarm; Thermosphere

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING; PLASMA; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 84897584810     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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