Seasonal variations of global lightning activity extracted from Schumann resonances using a genetic algorithm method

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yang, Heng ^a,b   Pasko, Victor P ^a   Sátori, Gabriella ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; THUNDERSTORMS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; SEASONAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 62149138732     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD009961     Document Type: Article

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