Full-wave modeling of transionospheric propagation of VLF waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Lehtinen, Nikolai G ^a   Inan, Umran S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIASING ERRORS; GROUND-BASED TRANSMITTERS; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LINEAR MODES; LOWER IONOSPHERES; RESONANCE CONES; SATELLITE ALTITUDES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TRANS-IONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; WAVE INTENSITIES; WAVE METHODS; WAVE MODELING; WHISTLER WAVES; FULL WAVE MODELING; FULL WAVES; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; TRANSIONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SATELLITES;

SATELLITES; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 65249168206     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036535     Document Type: Article

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