Characterisics of sprite-producing electrical storms in the steps 2000 domain

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lyons, Walter A ^a   Andersen, Laura ^a   Nelson, Thomas E ^a   Huffines, Gary R ^b  

^a FMA Research Incorporated   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

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