Submillisecond imaging of sprite development and structure

By S. Cummer, N. Jaugey, Jingbo Li, W. Lyons, T. Nelson, E. Gerken. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. V. Pasko
2. Joseph R. Dwyer
3. Martin A. Uman
4. S. Cummer
5. S. Nijdam
6. Yoav Yosef Yair
7. C. Kuo
8. Ute Ebert

In Global and Planetary Change

1. V. Pasko
2. C. Kuo
3. Yoav Yosef Yair
4. Joseph R. Dwyer
5. Umran S. Inan
6. S. Cummer
7. Martin A. Uman

Citations in the corpus

• Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events at High Altitude in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Phenomenology, Mechanisms and Effects (2012, methodology): “…which it was removed hQ) represents the key parameter which is used in current sprite literature to measure the strength of lightning in terms of sprite production potential (Cummer et al. 1998; Hu et al. 2002, 2007; Li et al. 2008; Cummer 2003; Cummer and Lyons 2004, 2005; Cummer et al. 2006a).”
• The physics of lightning (2014, background): “For example, Sprite streamers are sometimes observed to collide, with streamer tips attracted to channels left behind by other streamers [442].”
• The physics of streamer discharge phenomena (2020, background): “Such behaviour is also observed in sprites [118, 80] although, there, no real opposite”
• Review of recent results on streamer discharges and discussion of their relevance for sprites and lightning (2010, background): “sprites [Li J & Cummer, 2009; Liu et al., 2009]. We note that Li J & Cummer [2009] argue that an inhomogeneous field as in the experiments would not occur in sprites;”
• A survey of ELF and VLF research on lightning-ionosphere interactions and causative discharges (2010, methodology): “[49] Later, simultaneous observations of lightning and sprite optical emissions from the ISUAL instrument on the FORMOSAT‐2 satellite [Chern et al., 2003] showed that the ELF pulses emitted by sprites were not associated with any visible low‐altitude lightning process [Cummer et al., 2006a].”
• Red sprite discharges in the atmosphere at high altitude: the molecular physics and the similarity with laboratory discharges (2007, background): “Figure 2 illustrates a general scenario of development of sprites in which downward streamers appear to initiate either spontaneously or from brightening inhomogeneities at the bottom of an initially formed diffuse sprite halo and branch as they propagate downwards [ 30 ].”