X rays from 80-cm long sparks in air

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Rahman, Mahbubur ^a   Cooray, Vernon ^a   Ahmad, Noor Azlinda ^a   Nyberg, Johan ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^b   Sharma, Sriram ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC SPARKS; GEOPHYSICS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

LABORATORY SPARKS;

X RAY PRODUCTION;

ELECTRON; LABORATORY METHOD; SIGNAL; X-RAY;

EID: 44349176009     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032678     Document Type: Article

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