Articles | Volume 43, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-193-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-43-193-2025
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18 Mar 2025
Regular paper |  | 18 Mar 2025

Determination of vertical profiles of shell currents in the ionosphere

Evgeny Romashets and Marek Vandas

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In previous works, we found Euler potentials for the combined magnetic field of Earth's dipole, field-aligned currents, ring currents, and magnetopause surface currents (represented by Dungey's term) in the magnetosphere. The determination of shell currents is difficult.
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