Signatures of the day-night asymmetry of the Earth-ionosphere cavity in high time resolution Schumann resonance records

Radio Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Sátori, Gabriella ^a   Neska, Mariusz ^b   Williams, Earle ^c   Szendröi, Judit ^a  

^a GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE TIMING; AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; EARTH-IONOSPHERE CAVITY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; HUNGARY; LOCAL SURFACES; MIDLATITUDES; MODE NUMBER; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; SPITSBERGEN; TIME RESOLUTION; VERTICAL ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONOSPHERE; RESONANCE;

IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

EID: 49749087996     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RS003483     Document Type: Article

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