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Sprite observations from the space shuttle during the Mediterranean Israeli dust experiment (MEIDEX)
Yoav Yair,Colin Price,Zev Levin,Joachim H. Joseph,Peter Israelevitch,Adam Devir,M. Moalem,Baruch Ziv,Mustafa Asfur +8 more
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The Mediterranean Israeli dust experiment (MEIDEX) flew on-board the space shuttle in winter 2003, in a 39°inclination orbit for 16 days, passing over the major thunderstorm regions on Earth.About:
This article is published in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.The article was published on 2003-03-01. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sprite (lightning) & Schumann resonances.read more
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Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events at High Altitude in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Phenomenology, Mechanisms and Effects
TL;DR: A literature survey on the recent developments related to experimental and modeling studies of transient luminous events (TLEs) in the middle atmosphere termed elves, sprites and jets that are produced in association with thunderstorm activity at tropospheric altitudes is presented in this paper.
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"Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model for the physics of Sprite-producing Storms and their electrical properties, including the non-inductive charging process and the electrical properties inside Sprite-produced Storms.
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The oretical modeling of sprites and jets
TL;DR: An overview of the recent modeling efforts directed on interpretation of ob- served features of transient luminous events (TLEs) termed sprites, blue jets, blue starters and gigantic jets is presented in this article.
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Co-ordinated observations of transient luminous events during the EuroSprite2003 campaign
Torsten Neubert,T. H. Allin,Elisabeth Blanc,Thomas Farges,Christo Haldoupis,A. Mika,Serge Soula,Lars Knutsson,Oscar van der Velde,Robert A. Marshall,Umran S. Inan,Gabriella Sátori,József Bór,A. R. W. Hughes,Andrew B. Collier,S. Laursen,Ib Lundgaard Rasmussen +16 more
TL;DR: A sprite observation campaign was conducted from Southern Europe and the magnetically conjugate region in South Africa during the summer of 2003 as discussed by the authors, which brought together a wide variety of instrumentation to investigate the effects of sprites on the mesosphere.
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New observations of sprites from the space shuttle
Yoav Yair,Peter Israelevich,Adam Devir,M. Moalem,Colin Price,Joachim H. Joseph,Zev Levin,Baruch Ziv,Abraham Sternlieb,Amit Teller +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of space-based observations of sprites obtained during the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX) sprite campaign conducted on board the space shuttle Columbia during its STS-107 mission in January 2003 were presented.
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Television image of a large upward electrical discharge above a thunderstorm system.
TL;DR: An image of an unusual luminous electrical discharge over a thunderstorm 250 kilometers from the observing site has been obtained with a low-light-level television camera and resembled two jets or fountains and was probably caused by two localizd electric charge concentrations at the cloud tops.
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Über die strahlungslosen Eigenschwingungen einer leitenden Kugel, die von einer Luftschicht und einer Ionosphärenhülle umgeben ist
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a tiefest Eigenfrequenz with ω = 0 bis ω 0, where ω is a homogene plasmaschicht, and ω > ω0 is a plasmosphamide.
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Sprites, ELF Transients, and Positive Ground Strokes.
TL;DR: In two summertime mesoscale convective systems, mesospheric optical sprite phenomena were often coincident with both large-amplitude positive cloud-to-ground lightning and transient Schumann resonance excitations of the entire Earth-ionosphere cavity.
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Sprite observations above the U.S. High Plains in relation to their parent thunderstorm systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed 36 sprites above the Nebraska MCS of August 6, 1994 and found that sprites are almost uniquely associated with positive cloud-to-ground (+CG) lightning flashes, and that the majority of sprites occur above the large stratiform precipitation region and not the high-reflectivity convective core of the MCS.
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Electrical discharge from a thundercloud top to the lower ionosphere
TL;DR: A video recording of a blue jet propagating upwards from a thundercloud to an altitude of about 70 km is reported, taken at the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, to speculate that it may be common and therefore represent an unaccounted for component of the global electric circuit.