Velocities of sprite tendrils

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Moudry, D R ^a   Stenbaek Nielsen, H C ^a   Sentman, D D ^a   Wescott, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NASA; THUNDERSTORMS;

1000 FPS; HIGH SPEED; MULTIPLE SET; NEBRASKA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA; WYOMING;

VELOCITY;

EID: 0037110257     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015682     Document Type: Article

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