Assessing predictive ability of three auroral precipitation models using DMSP energy flux

Space Weather

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-71

  Lane, Cory ^a   Acebal, Ariel ^a   Zheng, Yihua ^b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 85027955173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014SW001085     Document Type: Article

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