Abstract:With a set of distinct spectrum peaks in the extra low frequency (ELF) portion of electromagnetic waves excited by global lightning discharges, the Schumann resonances (SR) occur. The experimental ELF data from Mitzpe-Roman site in Israel during May, 2012 was used to analyze the time domain and frequency domain characteristics of diurnal variation signal of SR with methods of spectrum transform, time average. According to the ELF radio propagation model in the Earth-ionosphere cavity, the dynamic spectrum of the magnetic component of SR band was simulated by taking the OTD/LIS satellite lightning data as input. Results show that ELF signals in time domain follows the normal distribution very well. Compared with the theoretical values of the resonance frequencies (8, 14, 20 Hz) of the first three modes, the diurnal variations of resonance frequencies of the SR power spectrum remain stable, whose offset are less than 0.3 Hz, 0.55 Hz, 0.6 Hz, respectively. The dynamic spectrum in the ELF band shows that two power spectrum peaks appear at 07-09 and 19-22 in the fundamental SR mode for the north-south horizontal magnetic field power spectrum, produced by lightning activities in Southeast Asia and America respectively, and a sole prominent peak at 12-15 appears in the first three SR modes for the east-west horizontal magnetic field power spectrum relating to "Africa chimney". The consistency between the simulation and measurement of the diurnal variations of SR spectrum illustrates that SR is able to response to lightning activities in different areas all over the world. Lightning activities in the three "hot spots" can be monitored and be deduced timely through the signals of different SR modes received from two orthogonal magnetic antennas of individual ELF field station.