Model of sprite luminous trail caused by increasing streamer current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Ningyu ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

afterglow; sprites; streamers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMPACT IONIZATION;

AFTERGLOW; ELECTRON-IMPACT EXCITATION; MODEL RESULTS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SPRITE STREAMER; SPRITES; STREAMER CHANNEL; STREAMERS;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION;

EID: 77950487294     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042214     Document Type: Article

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