Mesospheric electric field transients due to tropospheric lightning discharges

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1247-1250

  Pasko, Victor P ^a   Inan, Umran S ^a   Bell, Timothy F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROSTATICS; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; TRANSIENTS; TROPOSPHERE; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; POWER QUALITY;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING DISCHARGES; MESOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELD TRANSIENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING; MESOSPHERE;

CHARGE MOMENT CHANGE; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; ELECTROSTATIC MODELS; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL PICTURES; SHORT DURATIONS;

EID: 0033134269     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900240     Document Type: Article

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