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THE details of the structure of the oscillatory portion of the wave-form of an atmospheric have been the subject of several investigations1. Prof. T. H. Laby and his co-workers of the Australian Radio Research Board have made the remarkable suggestion that the observed complicated structure can be interpreted in terms of a series of reflections from an ionospheric layer of the simpler primary disturbance due to lightning. Their analysis places this height at 59–88 km.
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Watson Watt, R. A., Herd, F. F., and Lutkin, F. E., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 162, 267 (1937). Appleton, E. V., and Chapman, F. W., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 158, 1 (1937). Laby, T. H., Nicholls, F. G., Nickson, A., and Webster, H., NATURE, 139, 837 (1937). Laby, T. H., Nicholls, F. G., Nickson, A. F. B., and McNeill, J. J., NATURE, 142, 353 (1938).
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SCHONLAND, B., ELDER, J., VAN WYK, J. et al. Reflection of Atmospherics from the Ionosphere. Nature 143, 893–894 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143893a0
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