FORTE Satellite Observations of VHF Radiation from Lightning Discharges
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory/Sandia National Laboratory FORTE satellite is described and its capabilities for global remote sensing of lightning in the radio regime are described. Some results from 7 years of successful operation are presented. A future global lightning monitoring mission, VGLASS, is described.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004