Simultaneous observations of optical lightning and terrestrial gamma ray flash from space

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2423-2426

  Ostgaard N ^a   Gjesteland, T ^a   Carlson, B E ^a,b   Collier, A B ^c,d   Cummer, S A ^e   Lu, G ^e   Christian, H J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e Duke University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

optical lightning; radio waves VLF; terrestrial gamma ray flash

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INITIAL STAGES; LIGHTNING FLASHES; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RAY FLASHES;

LIGHTNING PROTECTION;

GAMMA RAYS;

GAMMA RAY RADIATION; LIGHTNING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; RADIO WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 84879940036     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50466     Document Type: Article

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