Ultra-slow tails of sprite-associated lightning flashes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3497-3500

  Füllekrug, Martin ^a,b   Fraser Smith, Antony C ^a   Reising, Steven C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPRITE-ASSOCIATED LIGHTNING FLASHES; ULTRA-SLOW TAILS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HORIZONTAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHTNING FLASHES; MAGNETIC INTENSITIES; POLARIZATION ELLIPSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TROPOSPHERE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; MAGNETISM; POLARIZATION;

LIGHTNING;

LIGHTNING; SPRITE;

EID: 0032531322     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02590     Document Type: Article

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