Using PC indices to predict violent GIC events threatening power grids | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 10, 2020


Article Number		3
Number of page(s)		13
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020004
Published online		04 February 2020

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