The planetary rate of sprite events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Ignaccolo, Massimiliano ^a   Farges, Thomas ^b   Mika, Agnes ^c   Allin, Thomas H ^d   Chanrion, Olivier ^d   Blanc, Elisabeth ^b   Neubert, Torsten ^d   Fraser Smith, Antony C ^e   Füllekrug, Martin ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b CEA DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; THUNDERSTORMS;

PLANETARY RATE; SPRITE DETECTORS; SPRITE EVENTS;

METEOROLOGY;

OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING; SPRITE;

EID: 33746444956     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025502     Document Type: Article

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