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Geocentric Systems

Geocentric systems have been described by Russell (1971) and Hapgood (1992) with corrections given in Hapgood (1995) and Hapgood (1997)11. You will also find a comprehensive introduction in Appendix 3 of Kivelson and Russell (1995). The ESA SPENVIS system contains an extensive description of geocentric systems 12. A software package by J.-C. Kosik is also maintained and documented at the Centre de Données de la Physique des Plasmas 13. We do not describe systems relevant for observations from the Earth surface, see [S., Ch.4] for a decription of these systems.



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Markus Fraenz 2017-03-13