Relative importance of the day-night asymmetry in schumann resonance amplitude records

Radio Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Pechony, O ^a   Price, C ^a   Nickolaenko, A P ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SOURCES; DIURNAL VARIATION; FIELD AMPLITUDES; FIELD RECORD; GLOBAL LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; MODEL RESULTS; NONUNIFORM; POINT SOURCES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; SEASONAL AMPLITUDES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

IONOSPHERE;

RESONANCE;

EID: 58149278752     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RS003456     Document Type: Article

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