Examples of ELF/VLF Waves observed in Antarctica
Examples of ELF/VLF Waves observed in Antarctica

Sounds:

Whistlers with echoes (216kB .wav file)10 s: Halley, 0950:21-:31 UT 19 May 1998
Dawn chorus (108kB .wav file)5 s: Halley, 1020:20-:25 UT 21 July 1998
Whistlers and triggered emissions (216kB .wav file)10 s: Halley, 0235:24-:34 UT 4 August 1998

Spectrograms:

Whistlers with echoes (10 s / 10 kHz / 50 dB spectrogram) Halley, 0950:31 UT 19 May 1998
Hook and quasi-constant tone (10 s / 10 kHz / 50 dB spectrogram) Halley, 2335:42 UT 3 August 1998
Multi-component whistler (10 s / 10 kHz / 50 dB spectrogram) Halley, 0120:42 UT 4 August 1998
Hooks (10 s / 10 kHz / 50 dB spectrogram) Halley, 0220:30 UT 4 August 1998
Whistlers and triggered emissions (10 s / 10 kHz / 50 dB spectrogram) Halley, 0235:34 UT 4 August 1998
Whistler, chorus bands, faller (10 s / 10 kHz / 50 dB spectrogram) Halley, 0535:13 UT 4 August 1998

More whistlers: Sounds and spectrograms:

Multi-component nose whistlers Halley, 2020:49 UT 30 May 2001
Diffuse whistlers and echoes Halley, 0504:20 UT 8 June 2001
Nose whistler with hooks Halley, 1935:14 UT 25 June 2001
Whistler triggering hiss burst Halley, 0935:48 UT 27 June 2001
Diffuse whistlers embedded in hiss Halley, 0050:08 UT 28 June 2001
Whistler triggering risers Halley, 0235:16 UT 29 June 2001
Whistler with inverted hooks Halley, 0535:30 UT 29 June 2001
Knee whistler and echo Halley, 1905:37 UT 17 July 2001
Whistler with its 3-hop echo. Halley, 2320:22 UT 19 July 2001

Selected Sounds from other web sites (not all Antarctic):

Stanford University:
Whistler (97kB .wav file)6 s
Polar PWI:
Whistler (605kB .wav file)28 s
Whistler (507kB .wav file)23 s
Whistler (858kB .wav file)39 s
Saucer (566kB .wav file)26 s
Chorus (624kB .wav file)28 s
Auroral hiss (507kB .wav file)23 s
Auroral hiss (585kB .wav file)26 s
AKR (683kB .wav file)31 s
INSPIRE Project:
Low Density Sferics (861kB .au file)19 s
Dense Sferics (1.1MB .au file)26s
Tweeks (675kB .au file)15s
Pure Note Whistlers (809kB .au file)18s
Diffuse Whistlers (900kB .au file)20s
2-Hop Whistler (1.3MB .au file)31s
Whister Echo Train (893kB .au file)20s
More whistlers (65kB .au file)8s
A chain of whistlers (101kB .au file)12s
Chorus (882kB .au file)20s
Chorus and sferics (294kB .au file)37s
Very loud chorus (248kB .au file)31s
More triggered emissions (23kB .au file)2s
Sferics and triggered emissions (65kB .au file)8s
Stephen P. McGreevy:
Chorus (550kB .wav file)51 s
Whistlers, echoes & triggered emissions (433kB .wav file)40 s
ELF & discrete emissions (158kB .wav file)14 s
Cluster:
Whistler (802kB .wav file)14 s
Chorus (1.2MB .wav file)45 s
Chorus (7.1MB .wav file)265 s
Chorus (7.2MB .wav file)270 s
AKR (3.2MB .wav file)119 s

Tools for handling the sound files:

Spectrogram Produces a dynamic scrolling spectrogram
SoX - Sound eXchange Converts between different sound formats



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