Global Lightning Activity on the Basis of Inversions of Natural ELF Electromagnetic Data Observed at Multiple Stations around the World

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 705-732

  Shvets, Alexander ^a   Hayakawa, Masashi ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

ELF natural noise; ELF tomography; Global lightning distribution; Inversion technique; Schumann resonance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; BACKGROUND FIELD; CONTINENTAL AREA; DISTANCE PROFILES; ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA; ELECTROMAGNETIC NOISE; ELF NATURAL NOISE; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; FIELD POWER; GLOBAL LIGHTNING; GLOBAL LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; HUMAN BEING; INVERSION METHODS; INVERSION PROBLEMS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LIGHTNING INTENSITY; OBSERVATION POINT; PLANET EARTH; SCHUMANN RESONANCES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME-SCALES; TOMOGRAPHIC; TWO STAGE;

EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETISM; GLOBAL WARMING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; THUNDERSTORMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHTNING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; INVERSE PROBLEM; LIGHTNING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 80053910798     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9135-1     Document Type: Article

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