Early VLF perturbations caused by lightning EMP-driven dissociative attachment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Marshall, R A ^a   Inan, U S ^a   Chevalier, T W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OXYGEN; PHOTODISSOCIATION; TRANSMITTERS;

DENSITY CHANGES; DISSOCIATIVE ATTACHMENTS; EARLY VLF PERTURBATIONS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ELECTRON LOSS; LIGHTNING DISCHARGES; LOWER IONOSPHERES; NEW MECHANISMS; TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; TRANSMITTER SIGNALS;

DISSOCIATION;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON DENSITY; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58849103457     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035358     Document Type: Article

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