The contribution of sprites to the global atmospheric electric circuit

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1193-1196

  Füllekrug, Martin ^a   Rycroft, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b CAESAR Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global circuit; Lightning; Sprites

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; LIGHTNING; MESOSPHERE; RADIO WAVE; SPRITE;

EID: 33750709657     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352009     Document Type: Article

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