Thunderstorms as the probable reason of high background neutron fluxes at L < 1.2

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1815-1818

  Bratolyubova Tsulukidze, L S ^a   Grachev, E A ^a   Grigoryan, O R ^a   Kunitsyn, V E ^a   Kuzhevskij, B M ^a   Lysakov, D S ^a   Nechaev, O Yu ^a   Usanova, M E ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Lightning discharges; Neutron fluxes; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONS; LIGHTNING; PLASMAS; PROBABILITY; THUNDERSTORMS;

ELECTRON FLUXES; LIGHTNING DISCHARGES; NEAR-EQUATORIAL FLUXES; NEUTRON FLUXES;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 8344244552     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.03.044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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