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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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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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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Relativistic runaway electron avalanche (category Lightning)
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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atmosphere and leaves again Lightning (Plasma) Sprite (lightning) – Electrical discharges above thunderstorm clouds Ball lightning – Atmospheric electrical...
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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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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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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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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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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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Terrestrial gamma-ray flash (redirect from Dark lightning)
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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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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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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Geothermal gradient Internal heating Atmospheric electricity Lightning Sprite (lightning) Electrical resistivity tomography Induced polarization Seismoelectrical...
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University of Alaska research flight over the Amazon in 1995 to study sprites. Ill-fated Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International...
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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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Spherical tokamak Spheromak Spinplasmonics Spontaneous emission Spreeta Sprite (lightning) Sputter cleaning Sputter deposition Sputtering SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions...
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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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Stratosphere (section Upper-atmospheric lightning)
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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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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Atmospheric physics Ionosphere Air quality Lightning rocket Electromagnetism Earth's magnetic field Sprites and lightning Whistler (radio) Telluric current Other...
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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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Wallykazam! (redirect from Libby Light Sprite)
"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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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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Ionosphere (section Lightning)
in lightning strikes. These events are called early/fast. In 1925, C. T. R. Wilson proposed a mechanism by which electrical discharge from lightning storms...
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