Electric fields and electron energies in sprites and temporal evolutions of lightning charge moment

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

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

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN FIELD; COMBINED ANALYSIS; COUPLING PROCESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA; ELECTRON ENERGIES; IONIZATION PROCESS; LIGHTNING CHARGE MOMENTS; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; MONTE CARLO; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; SHORT TIME SCALE; SPECTRAL DATA; SPRITE HALOS; SPRITE STREAMER; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-SCALES;

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 65249128888     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/23/234010     Document Type: Article

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