Using citizen science reports to define the equatorial extent of auroral visibility

Space Weather

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 198-209

  Case, N A ^a,b,c   MacDonald, E A ^a,b   Viereck, R ^d  

^a NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aurora; citizen science; visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959538951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015SW001320     Document Type: Article

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