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The Earth's Electrical Environment (1986) / Chapter Skim
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... , which is maintained by electric currents flowing throughout the solar-wind plasma. The IMF strength at the orbit of the Earth is roughly a factor of 10-4 smaller than the strength of the surface geomagnetic field.
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