Frequency-time spectra of magnetospherically reflecting whistlers in the plasmasphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A1, 2003, Pages

  Bortnik, J ^a,b   Inan, U S ^a,b   Bell, T F ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospherically reflecting; Nonducted; Plasmasphere; Spectrograms; VLF; Whistlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644264732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009387     Document Type: Article

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