Role of meteoric dust in sprite formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2593-2596

  Zabotin, N A ^a   Wright, J W ^b,c  

^a SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; IONOSPHERE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONDUCTING PARTICLES; DUST SURFACE; EXPLOSIVE EMISSIONS; FINE STRUCTURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAIN PROCESS; METEORIC DUST; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS; METEORITES;

MESOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; DUST; SPRITE;

EID: 0035392726     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012699     Document Type: Article

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