A 25-year record of 10 kHz sferics noise in Antarctica: Implications for tropical lightning levels

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4353-4356

  Watkins, Nicholas W ^a   Clilverd, Mark A ^a   Smith, Andy J ^a   Yearby, Keith H ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHTNING; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; THUNDERSTORMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TROPICS; ATMOSPHERICS; D REGION; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ANTARCTICA; RADIO NOISE; SFERICS NOISE; TROPICAL LIGHTNING LEVELS; 11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EARTH'S SURFACE; LEAST SQUARES FITTING; LIGHTNING FLASH RATE; SOURCE FUNCTIONS; SUNSPOT NUMBER; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING;

LIGHTNING; RADIO WAVE; SOLAR CYCLE; THUNDERSTORM;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033489813     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900146     Document Type: Article

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