Electrical discharge from a thundercloud top to the lower ionosphere

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6877, 2002, Pages 152-154

  Pasko, Victor P ^a   Stanley, Mark A ^b,d   Mathews, John D ^a   Inan, Umran S ^c   Wood, Troy G ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; IONOSPHERE; VIDEO RECORDING;

LUMINOUS PHENOMENA;

CLOUDS;

ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; IONOSPHERE; THUNDERCLOUD;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLOUD; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHTNING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037075634     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416152a     Document Type: Article

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