ELF radiation produced by electrical currents in sprites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1281-1284

  Cummer, S A ^a,b   Inan, U S ^a   Bell, T F ^a   Barrington Leigh, C P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT;

CURRENT PEAK; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; MEASUREMENTS OF; SPRITE LUMINOSITIES;

EARTH SCIENCES; LIGHTNING;

SPRITES;

EID: 0032048089     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50937     Document Type: Article

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