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    of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. First color image of a sprite, taken from an aircraft A sprite over Laos, as...
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    above the altitude of lightning-producing water clouds. There are several types of TLEs, the most common being sprites. Sprites are flashes of bright...
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  • Look up Sprite or sprite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sprite commonly refers to: Sprite (computer graphics), a smaller bitmap composited onto another...
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    Dry lightning List of lightning phenomena Upper-atmospheric lightning Sprite lightning "What Is Heat Lightning?". Weather.com. "What Is Heat Lightning?"...
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    light Hitodama List of lightning phenomena Mãe-do-Ouro Marfa lights Naga fireball Spontaneous human combustion Sprite (lightning) Will-o'-the-wisp Nunez...
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    humorous moniker ignorosphere. The presence of red sprites and blue jets (electrical discharges or lightning within the lower mesosphere), noctilucent clouds...
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    largely responsible for the initiation of sprites several tens of km above ground level. Positive lightning tends to occur more frequently in winter storms...
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    sea, from which flashes mounted as well directly up into the sky (sprite (lightning)) and shot down to the earth.[citation needed] Origines Iuris publici...
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  • atmosphere and leaves again Lightning (Plasma) Sprite (lightning) – Electrical discharges above thunderstorm clouds Ball lightning – Atmospheric electrical...
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    has been hypothesized to be related to lightning initiation, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, sprite lightning, and spark development. RREA is unique as...
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    has been linked to transient luminous events — sprites, ELVES, jets, and other upper-atmospheric lightning.[citation needed] A new field of interest using...
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    Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky "Belt of Venus over Cerro Paranal"...
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    50–90 km, where sprites form). Unlike the case of sprites, these large charges do not seem to be associated with TGF-generating lightning. Thus the DC field...
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    gamma-rays, a first for the Space Station. Aurora (astronomy) Sprite (lightning) Catatumbo lightning Cosmic ray visual phenomena List of European Space Agency...
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  • artist. He is known for his observations of transient luminous events (lightning sprites), meteoric fireballs, solar radio and optical phenomena, and Jupiter...
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    is the process through which lightning leaders create a path for lightning bolts. Streamers can also be observed as sprites in the upper atmosphere. Due...
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  • lightning, another name for a sprite in meteorology VF-194 (Red Lightning), a United States Navy aviation unit Red Lightning, a novel by author John Varley...
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    Geothermal gradient Internal heating Atmospheric electricity Lightning Sprite (lightning) Electrical resistivity tomography Induced polarization Seismoelectrical...
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    Chilingarian (ed.). The First Sprite Observation from Moscow in the Direction of Tver Region Associated with Repetitive Lightning Discharge. Proceedings of...
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    patron saint of sailors. The phenomenon, which can warn of an imminent lightning strike, was regarded by sailors with awe and sometimes considered to be...
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    green glows that appear after red sprites. The name "ghost" is an acronym for Green emissions from excited Oxygen in Sprite Tops. Schyma explains, the name...
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    Aeronomy (category Lightning)
    aeronomers study atmospheric tides and upper-atmospheric lightning discharges such as red sprites, sprite halos, blue jets, and ELVES.[citation needed] They...
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    Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky Oceanographic phenomena include...
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  • "Doug Hug!" as he does so. Libby Light Sprite (voiced by Jenna Iacono) is a 4-year old energetic pink sprite with purple hair and the ability to trace...
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  • Spherical tokamak Spheromak Spinplasmonics Spontaneous emission Spreeta Sprite (lightning) Sputter cleaning Sputter deposition Sputtering SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions...
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    sprites on systems without support for hardware sprites, such as the Apple II and ZX Spectrum, required a bitmapped screen. Sprite-sprite and sprite-background...
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  • difficulty for the team. Blue Lightning makes heavy use of several features found within the Lynx hardware such as sprite scaling and rotation, with Sommerville...
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  • Blue Lightning is a 1995 combat flight simulator video game developed by Attention to Detail and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar CD...
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    is referred to as blue jet, and that reaching into the mesosphere as red sprite. Bacterial life survives in the stratosphere, making it a part of the biosphere...
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  • Bob and George (category Sprite webcomics)
    Bob and George was a sprite-based webcomic which parodied the fictional universe of Mega Man. It was written by David Anez, who at the time was a physics...
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