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Thomas et al. 2005
Thomas, J.N., Holzworth, R.H., McCarthy, M.P. and Pinto, O. (2005). Lightning sferics and stroke-delayed pulses measured in the stratosphere: Implications for mesospheric currents. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL024629. issn: 0094-8276.

During the Brazil Sprite Balloon Campaign 2002--03, the vector ELF to VLF (25 Hz--8 kHz) electric and magnetic fields driven by cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning strokes at horizontal distances of 75--600 km were measured at altitudes of 30--35 km. Electric field changes were measured for each of the 2467 CG strokes detected by the Brazilian Integrated Lightning Network. ELF pulses that occur 4--12 ms after the retarded time of the lightning sferic, which have been previously attributed to sprites, were found for 1.4% of 934 strokes examined. Thus, lightning-driven electric and magnetic field changes were common and stroke-delayed ELF pulses were rare, which disagrees with results from the Sprites99 Balloon Campaign.

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Middle atmosphere, energy deposition, Electromagnetics, Wave propagation (2487, 3285, 4275, 4455, 6934), Atmospheric Processes, Atmospheric electricity, Atmospheric Processes, Lightning, Atmospheric Processes, Stratosphere/troposphere interactions
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Geophysical Research Letters
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