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Waves from whistlers

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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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Figure 1: Ionospheric turbulence.

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  1. Michael Kelley is at the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. mikek@ece.cornell.edu,

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Kelley, M. Waves from whistlers. Nature Geosci 1, 93–94 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo112

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