|
Detailed Reference Information |
Boeck, W.L., Vaughan, O.H., Blakeslee, R., Vonnegut, B. and Brook, M. (1992). Lightning induced brightening in the airglow layer. Geophysical Research Letters 19: doi: 10.1029/91GL03168. issn: 0094-8276. |
|
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. ¿American Geophysical Union 1992 |
|
|
|
BACKGROUND DATA FILES |
|
|
Abstract |
|
|
|
|
|
Keywords
Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Airglow and aurora, Ionosphere, Ionosphere-atmosphere interactions, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Lightning |
|
Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
|
|
|