Confining the angular distribution of terrestrial gamma ray flash emission

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Gjesteland, T ^a   Ostgaard N ^a   Collier, A B ^b,c   Carlson, B E ^a   Cohen, M B ^d   Lehtinen, N G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 80055059748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA016716     Document Type: Article

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