Saturation effects in VLF triggered emissions

• Main Author: Gibby, Andrew Ryan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stanford University 2008
• Subjects: Geophysics|Electrical engineering|Fluid dynamics|Gases; Siple; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3313814

The phenomenon of artificially triggered VLF emissions was first reported in 1964. Caused by a plasma instability in the Earth's radiations belts, VLF triggered emissions occur when an externally imposed VLF wave, propagating through the magnetosphere in the whistler mode, engages in a cyclotro...