Lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling as governing mechanism for preseismic short-term events in atmosphere and ionosphere

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 757-767

  Molchanov, O ^a   Fedorov, E ^a   Schekotov, A ^a   Gordeev, E ^b   Chebrov, V ^c   Surkov, V ^a   Rozhnoi, A ^a   Andreevsky, S ^a   Iudin, D ^d   Yunga, S ^c   Lutikov, A ^c   Hayakawa, M ^e   Biagi, P F ^f  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; IONOSPHERE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 19944427868     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-4-757-2004     Document Type: Article

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