Meteor Trails and Columniform Sprites

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-79

  Symbalisty, Eugene M D ^a   Roussel Dupré, Robert A ^a   Revelle, Douglas O ^a   Suszcynsky, David M ^a   Yukhimuk, Vyacheslav A ^b   Taylor, Michael J ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BGI   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres structure; Earth; Geophysics; Meteors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004372006     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6517     Document Type: Article

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