Millisecond time scale atmospheric light pulses associated with solar and magnetospheric activity
Abstract
By using a wide-angle photomultiplier system a class of millisecond time scale diffuse atmospheric light emission of terrestrial origin has been discovered. These fast atmospheric pulsation events also show damped oscillations around 10-kHz frequency, which distinguishes them from ordinary lightning-type events. Evidence is presented for the enhancement in the rate of these events induced by solar flare activity.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1029/JA078i016p03033
- Bibcode:
- 1973JGR....78.3033O
- Keywords:
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- Particles and Fields-Magnetosphere: General or miscellaneous;
- Particles and Fields-Ionosphere: General or miscellaneous;
- Aeronomy: General or miscellaneous