Measurement of sprite streamer acceleration and deceleration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Li, J ^a   Cummer, S A ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; ALTITUDE RANGE; CONSTANT RATE; DECELERATION PROCESS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MICROPHYSICS; SPEED OF LIGHT; SPRITE STREAMER; STREAMER PROPAGATION;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES;

ACCELERATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSPHERE; SPRITE;

EID: 67651091374     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037581     Document Type: Article

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