Publication Date:
2011-08-24
Description:
The Tsyganenko models contain 'modules' for two external current systems, the tail and ring currents; the former is the more detailed. No specific modules, however, cover the magnetopause and the Birkeland current system. The effects of these currents are represented by an all-purpose 'polynomial', and the resulting formulas involve about 30 parameters that specify the model. The dependence on magnetospheric indices is also simplified.
Keywords:
GEOPHYSICS
Type:
EOS (ISSN 0096-3941); 73; 46; p. 489, 493, 494.
Format:
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