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Terrestrial Extremely-Low-Frequency Propagation

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Natural Electromagnetic Phenomena below 30 kc/s

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Numerous papers have been dealing with extremely low frequency (ELF) phenomena recently and a comprehensive bibliography with over one thousand entries and abstracts has been prepared by Brock-Nannestad (1962). A chapter of a recent book by Wait (1962a) discusses ELF waves and it also contains a number of references to published papers. It will not be attempted to relist here all the references of the above publications. Instead, after a brief historical review of the work on ELF propagation and a summary of the fundamental concepts, much of the discussion will be devoted to recent analytical and experimental results.

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Galejs, J. (1964). Terrestrial Extremely-Low-Frequency Propagation. In: Bleil, D.F. (eds) Natural Electromagnetic Phenomena below 30 kc/s. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6425-0_11

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