Characteristics of Japanese winter sprites and their parent lightning as estimated by VHF lightning and ELF transients

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1431-1446

  Matsudo, Yu ^a   Suzuki, Tomoyuki ^b   Hayakawa, Masashi ^a   Yamashita, Kozo ^a   Ando, Yoshiaki ^a   Michimoto, Koichiro ^b   Korepanov, V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b Air Weather Group   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

ELF transients; Japanese winter lightning; Sprites; VHF SAFIR

Indexed keywords

JAPANESE WINTER LIGHTNING; SPRITES;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; TRANSIENTS;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 34447646893     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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