VLF signatures of ionospheric perturbations caused by lightning discharges in an underlying and moving thunderstorm

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2385-2388

  Corcuff, Yvonne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; THUNDERSTORMS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CLOUD TO GROUND (CG) DISCHARGE; LIGHTNING INDUCED ELECTRON PRECIPITATION (LEP);

IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING;

ENGLAND; IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATION; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; LIGHTNING GROUNDS; SHORT-PATH;

EID: 0032122054     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01521     Document Type: Article

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