Subionospheric VLF signatures and their association with sprites observed during EuroSprite-2003

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1580-1597

  Mika, Ágnes ^a   Haldoupis, C ^a   Marshall, R A ^b   Neubert, T ^c   Inan, U S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Early VLF perturbation; Elve; Lightning; Lower ionosphere; Red sprite

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; THUNDERSTORMS;

EARLY VLF PERTURBATION; ELVE; RED SPRITE; TRANSIENT LUMINOUS EVENTS (TLES);

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BACKSCATTER; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; SPRITE;

EID: 28444437035     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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