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Is the Dst Index Sufficient to Define All Geospace Storms?
Author(s) -
Borovsky Joseph E.,
Shprits Yuri Y.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: space physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2169-9402
pISSN - 2169-9380
DOI - 10.1002/2017ja024679
Subject(s) - storm , index (typography) , meteorology , space weather , environmental science , climatology , computer science , geology , geography , world wide web
The purpose of this commentary is (1) to raise awareness about some shortcomings of the use of the Dst index to identify storms, to gauge storm intensity, and to represent storm time space‐weather phenomena and (2) to initiate discussions about different types of storms and about improved identifiers for different types of storms.