The effects of thunderstorm-generated atmospheric gravity waves on mid-latitude F-region drifts

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 1904-1915

  Kumar, V V ^a   Parkinson, M L ^b   Dyson, P L ^a   Burns, G B ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric gravity waves; Digital ionosonde; Superposed epoch analysis; Thunderstorm ionosphere coupling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; DETECTION FREQUENCY; DIGITAL IONOSONDES; DOPPLER; DRIFT VELOCITIES; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; LIGHTNING LOCATION; LIGHTNING STROKES; MID-LATITUDE STATION; MIDLATITUDES; NEUTRAL WINDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUPERPOSED-EPOCH ANALYSIS; THERMOSPHERIC WINDS; TIME WINDOWS; TIME-SCALES; TRAVELLING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOMAGNETISM; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOSONDES; THUNDERSTORMS; WAVES;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 71749089176     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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