Observation of sprites over the Sea of Japan and conditions for lightning-induced sprites in winter

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A1, 2004, Pages

  Hayakawa, M ^a   Nakamura, T ^a   Hobara, Y ^b   Williams, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ELE waves; Hokuriku winter lightning; Sprites

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749083049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009905     Document Type: Article

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