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A study on heating of the lower ionosphere during lightning

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Title A study on heating of the lower ionosphere during lightning
 
Creator De, S S
Adhikari, S K
De, M
Bandyapadhyay, B
Guha, A
Paul, Suman
De, B K
 
Subject Lightning discharge
Ionospheric heating
 
Description 109-113
Heating of the ionosphere due to incidence of electromagnetic pulses coming from lightning discharges has been theoretically investigated. The electromagnetic radiation from lightning discharges produces variation in ionizing frequency and effective collision frequency of electrons. The energy gained by the free electrons from the incident electric fields of wide-band electromagnetic pulses from lightning strikes is not instantaneously transferred to the heavy particles in the medium, due to which the electron temperature is raised. Variation of temperature increase has been estimated.
 
Date 2008-12-05T05:33:47Z
2008-12-05T05:33:47Z
2008-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0367-8393
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2474
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source IJRSP Vol.37(2) [April 2008]