The location of lightning affecting the ionospheric sporadic-E layer as evidence for multiple enhancement mechanisms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Johnson, C G ^a   Davis, C J ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; STATISTICS;

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEM; SPORADIC-E LAYER;

METEOROLOGY;

E REGION; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646850071     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025294     Document Type: Article

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