How do winter thundercloud systems generate sprite-inducing lightning in the Hokuriku area of Japan?

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3310806s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 10, CiteID L10806

Physics

Geophysics

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Marine Geology And Geophysics: Gas And Hydrate Systems, Atmospheric Processes: Lightning, Atmospheric Processes: Remote Sensing

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Lightning and thundercloud systems leading to the generation of sprites were examined on the basis of analyses on the interrelation among radar reflectivity, lightning, and static electric field during the winter of 2004/2005 in the Hokuriku area of Japan. Eleven cases from the observed fifteen sprite events exhibit similar characteristics, so we present a typical case study of the thundercloud system. The analysis results are summarized as follows: (1) The sprite-inducing +CG was triggered by a cloud flash produced by an active cell. (2) The sprite-inducing +CG removed large positive charge from the stratiform region of another thunderstorm cell by the long linear lightning channel. (3) The origin of sprite-inducing large positive charge appears to be located in the stratiform region.

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