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Particularly intense lightning discharges can produce transient luminous events above thunderclouds, termed sprites, elves and jets. These short lived optical emissions in the mesosphere can reach from the tops of thunderclouds up to the ionosphere; they provide direct evidence of coupling from the lower atmosphere to the upper atmosphere. Sprites are arguably the most dramatic recent discovery in solar-terrestrial physics. Shortly after the first ground based video recordings of sprites, observations on board the Space Shuttle detected sprites and elves occurring all around the world. These reports led to detailed sprite observations in North America, South America, Australia, Japan, and Europe. Subsequently, sprites were detected from other space platforms such as the International Space Station and the ROCSAT satellite. During the past 15 years, more than 200 contributions on sprites have been published in the scientific literature to document this rapidly evolving new research area.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Physics Applied physics

• Full title: "Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges"
• Author: Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 398
• EAN: 9781402046278
• ISBN: 1402046278
• ID: 01416642
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 863 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2006

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