A new technique for reconstruction of the current moment waveform related to a gigantic jet from the magnetic field component recorded by an ELF station

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kułak, Andrzej ^a,b   Młynarczyk, Janusz ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL CURRENT; ELF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; MAGNETIC FIELD COMPONENTS; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RECORDED SIGNALS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM OBSERVATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; IONOSPHERE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 79955035379     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RS004475     Document Type: Article

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