Electric field transition between the diffuse and streamer regions of sprites estimated from ISUAL/array photometer measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; IONIZATION; LIGHT EMISSION; NITROGEN;

BEAD STRUCTURES; LOWER-STREAMER REGION; RED EMISSION INTENSITY;

PHOTOMETERS;

ELECTRIC FIELD; EMISSION; PHOTOMETER; SATELLITE;

EID: 33845606711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026495     Document Type: Article

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