First detection of transient luminous events associated with winter thunderstorms in the eastern Mediterranean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Ganot, Michal ^a   Yair, Yoav ^b   Price, Colin ^a   Ziv, Baruch ^b   Sherez, Yosef ^a   Greenberg, Eran ^a   Devir, Adam ^b   Yaniv, Roy ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

STRATIFORM CLOUDINESS; TRANSIENT LUMINOUS EVENTS; WINTER SPRITES; WINTER THUNDERSTORMS;

THUNDERSTORMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; THUNDERSTORM; WINTER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 38849101648     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029258     Document Type: Article

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