ELF/VLF signatures of sprite-producing lightning discharges observed during the 2005 EuroSprite campaign

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1254-1266

  Greenberg, E ^a   Price, C ^a   Yair, Y ^b   Haldoupis, C ^c   Chanrion, O ^d   Neubert, T ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ELF; Lightning; Schumann resonance; Sprites; VLF

Indexed keywords

CHARGE MOMENT CHANGE; CONTINUING CURRENT; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FREQUENCIES; ELF; ELF TRANSIENT; ELF/VLF; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; MULTIPLE GROUNDS; NARROW BANDS; PEAK CURRENTS; SCHUMANN RESONANCE; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; SPRITES; TIME AND SPACE; TRANSIENT LUMINOUS EVENTS; VERY LOW FREQUENCY; VLF;

ELECTRIC FURNACES; FREQUENCY BANDS; IONOSPHERE; RESONANCE; THUNDERSTORMS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 67650535741     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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