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Quantifying Positive and Negative Sprite-Halo Characteristics Over Northern Argentina
Document Type
Poster
Journal/Book Title/Conference
CEDAR 2008 Workshop
Location
Midway, UT
Publication Date
6-17-2008
Abstract
Sprites and halos are prominent members of an extraordinary family of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), discovered and named during the early 1990's. Occurring in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere, TLEs are now known to be caused by intense heating and ionization in the mesosphere due to electrons excited by transient electrical fields in the upper atmosphere induced by tropospheric lightning discharges.
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Matt; Taylor, M. J.; Pautet, P. D.; Cummer, S.; Jaugey, N.; Thomas, J. N.; and Holzworth, R. W., "Quantifying Positive and Negative Sprite-Halo Characteristics Over Northern Argentina" (2008). All Physics Faculty Publications. Paper 2154.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/physics_facpub/2154
