Co-ordinated observations of transient luminous events during the EuroSprite2003 campaign

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 8-9, 2005, Pages 807-820

  Neubert, Torsten ^a   Allin, Thomas H ^a   Blanc, Elisabeth ^b   Farges, Thomas ^b   Haldoupis, Christos ^c   Mika, Agnes ^c   Soula, Serge ^d   Knutsson, Lars ^d   van der Velde, Oscar ^d   Marshall, Robert A ^e   Inan, Umran ^e   Sátori, Gabriella ^f   Bór, Jozsef ^f   Hughes, Arthur ^g   Collier, Andrew ^g   Laursen, Steen ^a   Rasmussen, Ib L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CEA DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acoustic gravity waves; Atmospheric electricity; Ionosphere atmosphere interactions; Lightning; Mesospheric dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; CAMERAS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REMOTE CONTROL; THUNDERSTORMS;

MESOSPHERE; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL VIDEO IMAGING; SPRITES;

OBSERVATORIES;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; GRAVITY WAVE; IONIZATION; LIGHTNING; MESOSPHERE;

EID: 20944450487     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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