Polar cap index (PC) as a proxy for ionospheric electric field in the near-pole region
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Polar cap index comparisons with AMIE cross polar cap potential, electric field, and polar cap area
[1] The polar cap index (PCI) has been shown to be quite useful as an index of the electrodynamic processes within the high-latitude ionosphere. Here we use between 150 and 180 magnetometers to model the high-latitude electrodynamics with the assimilative mapping of ionospheric electrodynamics (AMIE) technique for all of 1997–2001. We compare AMIE calculations of the cross polar cap potential (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2000gl003756