Worldwide extremely low frequency magnetic field sensor network for sprite studies

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Whitley, Toby ^a   Fllekrug, Martin ^a   Rycroft, Michael ^b   Bennett, Alec ^c   Wyatt, Frank ^d   Elliott, Don ^d   Heinson, Graham ^e   Hitchman, Adrian ^f   Lewis, Andrew ^f   Sefako, Ramotholo ^g   Fourie, Pieter ^g   Dyers, Jaci ^g   Thomson, Alan ^h   Flower, Simon ^h  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b CAESAR Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^h BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONTINUING CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNATURES; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL NETWORKS; GLOBAL SCALE; HORIZONTAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SCOTLAND; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATE OF THE ART;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; LIGHTNING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SENSORS; MAGNETOMETERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; THUNDERSTORMS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

ARTS COMPUTING;

EID: 84860389069     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RS004523     Document Type: Article

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