The search for Titan lightning radio emissions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Fischer, G ^a   Gurnett, D A ^b  

^a Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; PLASMA WAVES; SPACE SHUTTLES;

CASSINI; NON-DETECTION; RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE SCIENCE; RADIO EMISSION; RADIO SOURCES; SOLAR RADIO EMISSION;

LIGHTNING;

LIGHTNING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATURN; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACECRAFT; TITAN;

EID: 79955641622     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047316     Document Type: Article

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