Analysis of q burst waveforms

Radio Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Ogawa, Toshio ^a   Komatsu, Masayuki ^b  

^a Polytechnic College Kochi   (Japan)

^b Science Laboratory International   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BALL ANTENNA; CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; ELECTRIC FIELD CHANGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVEFORMS; FAIR WEATHER; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; LIGHTNING STROKES; Q-BURST; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; TIME INTERVAL; WAVE FORMS;

LIGHTNING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 41549087818     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RS003493     Document Type: Article

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