Characteristics of chaotic pulse trains generated by lightning flashes

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 1733-1743

  Gomes, Chandima ^a   Cooray, Vernon ^b   Fernando, Mahendra ^a   Montano, Raul ^b   Sonnadara, Upul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chaotic pulses; Lightning; Return strokes

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CLOUDS; GEOMAGNETISM; SOLAR ENERGY;

LIGHTNING FLASHES; PULSE TRAIN; STROKES;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING;

EID: 10144243371     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2004.07.036     Document Type: Article

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