New observations of sprites from the space shuttle

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Yair, Yoav ^a   Israelevich, Peter ^b   Devir, Adam D ^b   Moalem, Meir ^c   Price, Colin ^b   Joseph, Joachim H ^b   Levin, Zev ^b   Ziv, Baruch ^a   Sternlieb, Abraham ^d   Teller, Amit ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Israeli Air Force   (Israel)

^d Ministry of Defence Government of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Space shuttle; Sprites; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SATELLITE MISSION; SPRITE; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 6444225882     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JD004497     Document Type: Article

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