Spatial and temporal ionospheric monitoring using broadband sferic measurements

• Main Author: McCormick, Jackson C.
• Other Authors: Cohen, Morris B., Steffes, Paul, Bibby, Malcolm, Simon, Sven, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2016
• Subjects: Ionosphere; Remote sensing; Sferics; VLF (Very low frequency); Radio; Solar flares; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54469

The objective of this thesis is to use radio emissions from lightning, known as `radio atmospherics' or `sferics', to study the temporal and spatial variation of the lower ionosphere, a layer of ionized atmosphere beginning at $\sim$70 km altitude (D-region). Very Low Frequency (VLF, 3$-$3...