High speed video of initial sprite development

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3201-3204

  Stanley, Mark ^a   Krehbiel, Paul ^a   Brook, Marx ^a   Moore, Charles ^a   Rison, William ^a   Abrahams, Bill ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Speed Vision Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CORONA; THUNDERSTORMS;

SPRITES;

LIGHTNING;

SPRITE; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 0033569062     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010673     Document Type: Article

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