A real-time hybrid aurora alert system: Combining citizen science reports with an auroral oval model

Earth and Space Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 257-265

  Case, N A ^a,b,c   Kingman, D ^a   MacDonald, E A ^a,b  

^a NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alerts; aurora; citizen science

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037746040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23335084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EA000167     Document Type: Article

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