A terrestrial gamma ray flash observed from an aircraft

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Smith, D M ^a,b   Dwyer, J R ^c   Hazelton, B J ^d   Grefenstette, B W ^e   Martinez Mckinney, G F M ^a   Zhang, Z Y ^a   Lowell, A W ^b   Kelley, N A ^a   Splitt, M E ^c   Lazarus, S M ^c   Ulrich, W ^f   Schaal, M ^c   Saleh, Z H ^g   Cramer, E ^c   Rassoul, H ^c   Cummer, S A ^h   Lu, G ^h   Shao, X M ⁱ   Ho, C ⁱ   Hamlin, T ⁱ   Blakeslee, R J ^j   Heckman, S ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Physics and Space Sciences Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h Duke University   (United States)

ⁱ LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k AWS Convergence Technologies Inc   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THUNDERSTORMS;

CHARGE MOMENT CHANGE; GAMMA RAY DETECTOR; GAMMA RAY SIGNALS; GULFSTREAM; LOW EARTH ORBITS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RAY PROPAGATION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RAY FLASHES;

GAMMA RAYS;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 80455156338     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016252     Document Type: Article

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