News and Views
Nature Geoscience 1, 93 - 94 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo112
Subject Category: Space physics
Space science: Waves from whistlers
Michael Kelley1
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Michael Kelley is at the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
e-mail: mikek@ece.cornell.edu
Abstract
In the auroral region, solitary plasma waves form in a low-density plasma when energetic electron beams hit and energize ambient ions to escape velocity. Electromagnetic waves from lightning trigger similar plasma behaviour in the equatorial ionosphere.
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