Assessment of sprite initiating electric fields and quenching altitude of a1IIg state of N2 using sprite streamer modeling and ISUAL spectrophotometric: Measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Ningyu ^a   Pasko, Victor P ^b   Frey, Harald U ^c   Mende, Stephen B ^c   Su, Han Tzong ^d   Chen, Alfred B ^d   Hsu, Rue Ron ^d   Lee, Lou Chuang ^e  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 77954320432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013735     Document Type: Article

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