The likelihood of winter sprites over the Gulf Stream

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 27-1-27-4

  Price, Colin ^a   Burrows, William ^b   King, Patrick ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; THUNDERSTORMS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TRANSIENT LUMINOUS EVENTS (TLE);

LIGHTNING;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING; SPRITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 0037113692     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015571     Document Type: Article

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