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Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union
Volume
88
Issue
10
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Publication Date
3-2007
First Page
117
Last Page
119
Abstract
During the night of 22–23 February 2006, more than 400 middle- atmospheric optical discharges were observed above one large thunderstorm system over northeastern Argentina. These transient luminous events (TLEs) were imaged during the Southern Brazil Sprite Campaign, the first campaign to focus on TLEs over southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, and Uruguay. All of the TLEs were imaged from the Brazilian Southern Space Observatory (SSO) near Santa Maria, which is nearly in the center of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Although the fields of view of the imaging cameras were too narrow to view the entire storm, the more than 400 confirmed TLEs imaged indicate that this storm ranks as the third most active TLE producer ever reported. Hence, storms in this region of South America might be some of the leading TLE generators on Earth.
Recommended Citation
Thomas, J. N., M. J. Taylor, D. Pautet, M. Bailey, N. N. Solorzano, R. H. Holzworth, M. P. McCarthy, M. Kokorowski, F. Sao Sabbas, O. Pinto Jr., S. A. Cummer, N. Jaugey, J. Li, N. J. Schuch, A Very Active Sprite-Producing Storm Observed Over Argentina, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(10), 117, doi:10.1029/2007EO100001, 2007.
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Published by the American Geophysical Union in EOS.
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