The impact of lightning flashes and sprites on the earth's global electric circuit: An overview of recent modeling results

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1118, Issue , 2009, Pages 124-135

  Rycroft, Michael J ^a   Odzimek, Anna ^b  

^a CAESAR Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric electricity; Discharges; Global circuit; Models; Sprites; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650376638     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3137704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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