Electric fields and electron energies inferred from the ISUAL recorded sprites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kuo, Cheng Ling ^a   Hsu, R R ^a   Chen, A B ^a   Su, H T ^a   Lee, L C ^a,b   Mende, S B ^c   Frey, H U ^c   Fukunishi, H ^d   Takahashi, Y ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS;

ATMOSPHERE BREAKDOWN; ELECTRON ENERGIES; SPRITE STREAMER MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; SPRITE;

ATMOSPHERE BREAKDOWN; E-FIELD; ELECTRON ENERGIES; FORMOSAT-2; PEAK INTENSITY RATIO; SPACE-BORNE INSTRUMENTS; SPRITE STREAMER MODEL;

EID: 28144456739     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023389     Document Type: Article

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