Comment on "radio frequency radiation beam pattern of lightning return strokes: A revisit to theoretical analysis" by Xuan-Min Shao, Abram R. Jacobson, and T. Joseph Fitzgerald

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Thottappillil, Rajeev ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 31644446944     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005729     Document Type: Article

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