A review of progress in FDTD Maxwell's equations modeling of impulsive subionospheric propagation below 300 kHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 6 I, 2007, Pages 1582-1590

  Simpson, Jamesina J ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Earthquake; Elves; Extremely low frequency (ELF); Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Global temperature; Ionosphere; Ionospheric disturbances; Lightning; Low frequency (LF); Oil fields; Propagation; Radar; Remote sensing; Schumann resonances; Sprites; Transient amplitude and phase perturbations of subionospheric signals (TRIMPIS); Ultralow frequency (ULF); Very low frequency (VLF); Waveguide

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM; PHASE PERTURBATION; SCHUMANN RESONANCE; TRANSIENT AMPLITUDE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34250795037     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.897138     Document Type: Review

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