Identification of sprites and elves with intensified video and broadband array photometry

By Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Umran S. Inan, M. Stanley. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• A survey of ELF and VLF research on lightning-ionosphere interactions and causative discharges (2010, methodology): “According to theory and modeling [Barrington‐Leigh et al., 2001], halos should produced by lightning containing relatively large charge moment”
• Submillisecond imaging of sprite development and structure (2006, background): “[1996] and later by Barrington-Leigh et al. [2001], in which sprites form from”
• Implications of lightning charge moment changes for sprite initiation (2005, background): “It is intriguing that a 791 C km CG produced only an elve (no halo or sprite) while a smaller 681 C km +CG produced a likely halo, since the conventional breakdown process responsible for halos [Barrington-Leigh et al., 2001] is not thought to have any polarity asymmetry.”
• Review of recent results on streamer discharges and discussion of their relevance for sprites and lightning (2010, background): “0148‐0227/10/2009JA014867 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, A00E43, doi:10.1029/2009JA014867, 2010 A00E43 1 of 13 et al., 1998; Barrington‐Leigh et al., 2001; Hu et al., 2002, 2007; Hiraki and Fukunishi, 2007; Adachi et al., 2008; J. Li et al., 2008].”
• The physics of lightning (2014, background): “TGFs were originally assumed to originate from high-altitude discharges (i.e., Sprites), but it is now known that they originate from thundercloud altitudes, usually in association with IC lightning.”
• Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events at High Altitude in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Phenomenology, Mechanisms and Effects (2012, background): “2007; Stenbaek-Nielsen and McHarg 2008); ‘halos’, which are brief descending glows with lateral extent 40-70 km, which sometimes (but not always) observed to accompany or precede more structured sprites (Barrington-Leigh et al. 2001; Frey et al. 2007); relatively slow-moving fountains of blue light,”
• Global distributions and occurrence rates of transient luminous events (2008, background): “…et al., 2002; Takahashi et al., 2003], elve [Fukunishi et al., 1996; Mende et al., 2005; Frey et al., 2005], blue jet [Wescott et al., 1995], halo [Barrington-Leigh et al., 2001; Moudry et al., 2003; Miyasato et al., 2002], and gigantic jet [Pasko et al., 2002; Su et al., 2003; van der Velde et…”
• Red sprite discharges in the atmosphere at high altitude: the molecular physics and the similarity with laboratory discharges (2007, background): “conductivity) enhancement associated with the sprite halo at the initial stage of sprite formation [24].”
• Recent advances in theory of transient luminous events (2010, methodology): “, 1995]; (c) halos (2 ms sequence showing downward progression of halo before development of vertical sprite structure) [Barrington‐Leigh et al., 2001]; (d) blue jets [Wescott et al.”