Comparison of results from sprite streamer modeling with spectrophotometric measurements by ISUAL instrument on FORMOSAT-2 satellite

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Ningyu ^a   Pasko, Victor P ^a   Burkhardt, David H ^a   Frey, Harald U ^b   Mende, Stephen B ^b   Su, Han Tzong ^c   Chen, Alfred B ^c   Hsu, Rue Ron ^c   Lee, Lou Chuang ^c   Fukunishi, Hiroshi ^d   Takahashi, Yukihiro ^d  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; THUNDERSTORMS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CONVENTIONAL BREAKDOWN THRESHOLD FIELD; INTENSITY RATIOS; NEGATIVE BAND SYSTEM; POSITIVE BAND SYSTEM; SPRITE STREAMER;

METEOROLOGY;

SATELLITE SENSOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 33644628758     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024243     Document Type: Article

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