Q-bursts: Natural ELF radio transients

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 409-425

  Nickolaenko, A P ^a   Hayakawa, M ^b   Hobara, Y ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earth ionosphere waveguide; ELF propagation; Principal components; Q bursts; Schumann resonance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; EARTH IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE; ELF TRANSIENT; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW LEVEL; MANMADE NOISE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RESONANCE SPECTRUM; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE FORMS; WIDEBAND RECEIVERS;

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC FURNACES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; IONOSPHERE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESONANCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954140476     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-010-9096-9     Document Type: Article

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