Estimating the electric field response to the Halloween 2003 and September 2017 magnetic storms across Scotland using observed geomagnetic fields, magnetotelluric impedances and perturbation tensors

Fiona Simpson; Karsten Bahr

doi:10.1051/swsc/2020049

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J. Space Weather Space Clim., 10 (2020) 48

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


Article Number		48
Number of page(s)		16
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020049
Published online		07 October 2020

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