Observations of decameter-scale morphologies in sprites

Details Observations of decameter-scale morphologies in sprites Observations of decameter-scale morphologies in sprites

Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jastp..65..567g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 65, Issue 5, p. 567-572.

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Using telescopic imaging it is observed that sprite morphologies such as upward branching, downward branching, beading, and columns can assume a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and time scales. Beads at the base of columniform sprites can glow for over 100ms while slowly drifting upward. Faint positive streamers are observed at the base of angel sprites and immediately prior to bright sprite events. A transition region between streamer formation and diffuse glow is observed at ~80km altitude. Telescopic images containing these features are presented for a number of cases.

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