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Also Known As	solar storm • magnetic storm

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substorm-wedge current system magnetospheric substorm growth phase space weather storm geomagnetic field ionosphere magnetosphere electrojet polar wandering protonosphere F region D region E region

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Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

German explorer and naturalist