Mesosphere-troposphere coupling due to sprites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 3821-3824

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

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FRACTALS; IONOSPHERE; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

MESOSPHERE;

TROPOSPHERE; IONOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; MESOSPHERE; SPRITE; TROPOSPHERE;

CHARGE MOMENT CHANGE; EARTH'S SURFACE; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; FRACTAL MODEL; LOWER IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0035475834     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013222     Document Type: Article

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