Telescopic imaging of sprites

被引:144
作者
Gerken, EA [1 ]
Inan, US [1 ]
Barrington-Leigh, CP [1 ]
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[1] Stanford Univ, Star Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
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10.1029/2000GL000035
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
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Telescopic images of sprites show a wide variety of generally vertical but also slanted fine structure, including branching tree-like shapes and well defined but isolated columns, with transverse spatial scales ranging from tens of meters to a few hundred meters at similar to 60-85 km altitude. Simultaneous analysis of radio atmospheric and lightning data indicates that specific columnar regions are selectively excited by successive discharges.
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