Runaway electrons as a source of red sprites in the mesosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 1995, Pages 2127-2130

  Bell, Timothy F ^a   Pasko, Victor P ^a   Inan, Umran S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUASI ELECTROSTATIC FIELD; RED SPRITE; RUNAWAY ELECTRON; UPWARD DISCHARGE;

EID: 0029476569     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL02239     Document Type: Article

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