Temporal variations of the global lightning activity deduced from the Schumann resonance data

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1699-1709

  Nickolaenko, A P ^a   Hayakawa, M ^b   Hobara, Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL THUNDERSTORM; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; SCHUMANN RESONANCE DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

JAPAN, HONSHU, TOTTORI;

EID: 0030446908     PISSN: 00219169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9169(95)00189-1     Document Type: Article

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