A Study of Early/Slow VLF Perturbations Observed at Agra, India

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• 作者：Uma Pandey ; Ashutosh K. Singh ; Om P. Singh ; Birbal Singh…
• 关键词：Key wordsearly VLF perturbations ; Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) ; Earth ; ionosphere waveguide ; lightning
• 刊名：Acta Geophysica
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：64
• 期：3
• 页码：755-771
• 全文大小：464KB
• 刊物主题：Geophysics/Geodesy; Structural Geology; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1895-7455
• 卷排序：64

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We present here the results of sub-ionospheric VLF perturbations observed on NWC (19.8 kHz) transmitter signal propagating in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide, monitored at our low latitude station Agra. During the period of observation (June-December 2011), we found 89 cases of VLF perturbation, while only 73 cases showing early character associated with strong lightning discharges. Out of 73 events, 64 (~84%) of the early VLF perturbations are found to be early/slow in nature; the remaining 9 events are early/fast. The onset duration of these early/slow VLF perturbations is up to ~ 5 s. A total of 54 observed early events show amplitude change lying between ± 3.0 dB, and phase change ± 12 degree, respectively, and found to occur mainly during nighttime. One of the interesting results we found is that the events with larger recovery time lie far away from the VLF propagation path, while events with smaller duration of recovery are within the ± 50–100 km of signal path. The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) data is analysed to find the location of causative lightning and temporal variation. The lightning discharge and associated processes that lead to early VLF events are discussed.