Observation of sprites over the Asian continent and over oceans around Taiwan

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Feb 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29d...3s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 4, pp. 3-1, CiteID 1044, DOI 10.1029/2001GL013737

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Lightning, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Atmospheric Electricity, Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Atmosphere Interactions (0335)

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Sprites were observed over thunderstorms in the southern China and in oceans around Taiwan. The observation sites were on the Ali Mountain of Taiwan's Central Ridge area with an altitude of 2413 m and in the campus of National Cheng Kung University with an altitude of 50 m. For the observed land sprites, 90% of them were either carrots or columniforms and 64% of the sprites occurred in groups. Among the observed oceanic sprites, 89% of them were carrots but only 22% of the sprites occurred in groups. We define a sprite active system as a thunderstorm that continuously produces at least one sprite in a 10-minute interval. The active sprites generating periods for the observed thunderstorms were typically shorter than 30 minutes. The sprite production rates for these Asian thunderstorms are estimated to be between I ~ 2 × 10-4 events/km2/hr and I ~ 1 × 10-3 events/km2/hr.

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