VLF scattering from red sprites: Vertical columns of ionization in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 913-921

  Rodger, Craig J ^a   Thomson, Neil R ^b   Wait, James R ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c NERC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THUNDERSTORMS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; WAVEGUIDES;

RED SPRITE PLASMAS;

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; IONIZATION;

EARTH IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE; FINITE LENGTH; LOW LIGHT; RED SPRITE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TV SYSTEMS; VERTICAL COLUMNS;

EID: 0032687204     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900051     Document Type: Article

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