Radiating conducting columns inside the Earth-ionosphere waveguide: Application to red sprites

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1177-1204

  Rodger, Craig J ^a   Wait, James R ^b   Dowden, Richard L ^a   Thomson, Neil R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IONOSPHERE; SCATTERING; SPRITE; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 0032456969     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6826(98)00073-x     Document Type: Article

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