Heating, ionization and upward discharges in the mesosphere due to intense quasi-electrostatic thundercloud fields

Details Heating, ionization and upward discharges in the mesosphere due to intense quasi-electrostatic thundercloud fields Heating, ionization and upward discharges in the mesosphere due to intense quasi-electrostatic thundercloud fields

Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995georl..22..365p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 365-368

Physics

101

Ionosphere: Electric Fields, Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Atmosphere Interactions, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Atmospheric Electricity, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Lightning

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Quasi-electrostatic (QE) fields that temporarily exist at high altitudes following the sudden removal (e.g., by a lightning discharge) of thundercloud charge at low altitudes are found to significantly heat mesospheric electrons and produce ionization and light. The intensity, spatial extent, duration and spectra of optical emissions produced are consistent with the observed features of the Red Sprite type of upward discharges.

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