News 9.5.2014
Information about the Earth's near-space energy budget using new ionosphere models
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has developed a series of new statistical models based on observations that describe the electrical currents and fields that occur at high latitudes in Earth's ionosphere. The models have helped provide new information concerning the input of solar wind energy to the Earth's magnetosphere.
More information:
Researcher Liisa Juusola, tel. +358 29 539 4687
Juusola, L., S. E. Milan, M. Lester, A. Grocott, and S. M. Imber (2014), Interplanetary magnetic field control of the ionospheric field-aligned current and convection distributions, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JA019455.