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Term: whistler
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Definition: radio noise generated by natural electric discharges below the ionosphere and reaching the receiving point along trajectories located in the strongly dispersive medium of the plasmasphere

NOTE – Whistlers occur generally at LF, VLF and ELF and usually include one or several components whose instantaneous frequencies decrease steadily in the audio-frequency range in a period of time varying from a fraction of second to several seconds.


Publication date:1998-04
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