Modeling of Doppler-shifted terrestrial VLF transmitter signals observed by DEMETER

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Starks, M J ^a   Bell, T F ^b   Quinn, R A ^c   Inan, U S ^b   Piddyachiy, D ^b   Parrot, M ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AER   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMETER; DOPPLER; DOPPLER SHIFTS; DOPPLER-SHIFTED SIGNALS; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; LINEAR MODES; PLASMASPHERE; POWER-LOSSES; PROPAGATION PATHS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SMALL-SCALE PLASMA DENSITY; TRANSMITTER SIGNALS; VERY LOW FREQUENCY; WAVE ENERGY;

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; IONOSPHERE; PLASMA DENSITY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TRANSMITTERS;

DEMETER; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 68749092665     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038511     Document Type: Article

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