The lightning-TGF relationship on microsecond timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Cummer, Steven A ^a   Lu, Gaopeng ^a   Briggs, Michael S ^b   Connaughton, Valerie ^b   Xiong, Shaolin ^b   Fishman, Gerald J ^c   Dwyer, Joseph R ^d  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHTNING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MIRRORS;

COUNT RATES; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; GENERATION PROCESS; GEOLOCATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD DATA; SIGNAL COMPONENTS; SOURCE CURRENTS; TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES; TIME-SCALES;

GAMMA RAYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; LIGHTNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; PROBE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79961118614     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048099     Document Type: Article

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