Reconstruction of the global lightning distribution from ELF electromagnetic background signals

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1405-1412

  Shvets, A V ^a,b   Hayakawa, M ^a   Sekiguchi, M ^a   Ando, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Earth ionosphere cavity; ELF tomography; Extremely low frequencies; Global lightning mapping; Inverse problem; Schumann resonance

Indexed keywords

EARTH-IONOSPHERE CAVITY; ELF TOMOGRAPHY; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; GLOBAL LIGHTNING MAPPING; SCHUMANN RESONANCE;

ELECTRIC FURNACES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAPPING; RESONANCE; SENSORS; THUNDERSTORMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 67650516862     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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