Lightning induced brightening in the airglow layer

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Jan 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992georl..19...99b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 19, Jan. 24, 1992, p. 99-102.

Physics

53

Airglow, Lightning, Satellite Observation, Thunderstorms, Tropical Regions, Electric Discharges, Electromagnetic Radiation, Luminosity, Remote Sensing

Scientific paper

This report describes a transient luminosity observed at the altitude of the airglow layer (about 95 km) in coincidence with a lightning flash in a tropical oceanic thunderstorm directly beneath it. This event provides new evidence of direct coupling between lightning and ionospheric events. This luminous event in the ionosphere was the only one of its kind observed during an examination of several thousand images of lightning recorded under suitable viewing conditions with Space Shuttle cameras. Several possible mechanisms and interpretations are discussed briefly.

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