Statistics and properties of transient luminous events found in the 1999 Sprites Balloon Campaign

被引：5

作者：

Bhusal, L

Bering, EA

Benbrook, JR

Garrett, JA

Paredes, AM

Wescott, EM

Moudry, DR

Sentman, DD

Stenbaek-Nielsen, HC

Lyons, WA

机构：

[1] Univ Houston, Dept Phys, Houston, TX 77204 USA

[2] Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Inst Geophys, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA

[3] FMA Res Inc, Yucca Ridge Field Stn, Ft Collins, CO 80524 USA

来源：

PLANETARY IONOSPHERES AND ATMOSPHERES INCLUDING CIRA | 2004年 / 34卷 / 08期

关键词：

sprites; transient luminous events; 1999 Balloon Campaign;

D O I：

10.1016/j.asr.2003.05.045

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

Historically, the process of transient luminous event (TLE) detection has required an alert human observer on a low light level television (LLTV) monitor, either in real time or playback. The 1999 Sprites Balloon Campaign payloads had all-sky upward looking photometers not sensitive to events below the balloons. The photometer data was examined at the time of National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) lightening strokes to find TLEs that were missed visually. 3602 events were analyzed in 4.1 h of storm time. Threshold current moments of similar to50 kA km for the positive cloud to ground (+CG) TLEs and similar to5 kA km for negative cloud to ground (-CG) TLEs are found. (C) 2004 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：1811 / 1814

页数：4

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