The Recent Geomagnetic Field and its Variations

Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 25-63

  Lühr, Hermann ^a   Korte, Monika ^a   Mandea, Mioara ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ionospheric Current; Magnetic Anomaly; Secular Variation; Solar Wind; Spherical Harmonic Degree

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091212526     PISSN: 18668348     EISSN: 18668356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76939-2_2     Document Type: Chapter

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