Characteristics of sprite and gravity wave convective sources present in satellite IR images during the SpreadFEx 2005 in Brazil

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1279-1293

  Sao Sabbas F T ^a   Rampinelli, V T ^a   Santiago, J ^a   Stamus, P ^b   Vadas, S L ^b   Fritts, D C ^b   Taylor, M J ^c   Pautet, P D ^c   Dolif Neto, G ^a   Pinto, O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b CoRA Division ^*  (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CORRELATION; CYCLOGENESIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOES; GRAVITY WAVE; INFRARED IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPRITE; THUNDERSTORM; TROPOPAUSE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL;

EID: 72049086831     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-1279-2009     Document Type: Article

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