Identification of infrasound produced by sprites during the Sprite2003 campaign

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Farges, T ^a   Blanc, E ^a   Le Pichon, A ^a   Neubert, T ^b   Allin, T H ^b  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; OBSERVATORIES; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; THUNDERSTORMS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION MODELS; EARTH THERMOSPHERE WAVEGUIDES; INFRASOUND BURSTS; LIGHT-SENSITIVE OPTICAL CAMERAS; SPRITES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

INFRASONICS; SPRITE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 16344363667     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021212     Document Type: Article

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