triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. Sprites appear as luminous red-orange flashes. They...
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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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Hitodama List of lightning phenomena Mãe-do-Ouro Marfa lights Naga fireball Plasmoid Spontaneous human combustion Shiranui Sprite (lightning) Will-o'-the-wisp...
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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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pillar Lightning Mirages (including Fata Morgana) Monochrome Rainbow Moon dog Moonbow Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud Rainbow Sprite (lightning) Subsun...
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thunderstorm (hailstorm, downburst: microbursts and macrobursts) Sprite (lightning) Air pollution Extreme weather List of weather-related phenomena Meteorology...
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pillar Lightning Mirages (including Fata Morgana) Monochrome Rainbow Moon dog Moonbow Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud Rainbow Sprite (lightning) Subsun...
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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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Red Lightning may refer to: Red Lightning (band), an American rock band Red Lightning (video game), a 1989 video game Sprite (lightning), also known as...
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occurrence of upward lightning flashes from the tops of tall structures and is largely responsible for the initiation of sprites several tens of kilometers...
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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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pillar Lightning Mirages (including Fata Morgana) Monochrome Rainbow Moon dog Moonbow Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud Rainbow Sprite (lightning) Subsun...
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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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pillar Lightning Mirages (including Fata Morgana) Monochrome Rainbow Moon dog Moonbow Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud Rainbow Sprite (lightning) Subsun...
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Geothermal gradient Internal heating Atmospheric electricity Lightning Sprite (lightning) Electrical resistivity tomography Induced polarization Seismoelectrical...
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1995, Boccippio et al. showed that sprites, the most common TLE, are produced by positive cloud-to-ground lightning occurring in the stratiform region...
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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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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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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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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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Kobold (category Sprites (folklore))
the sprite is sometimes said to appear as a shaft of fire, with what looks like a head. There is also the combined form Nis Puk. A house sprite Hinzelmann...
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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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Spherical tokamak Spheromak Spinplasmonics Spontaneous emission Spreeta Sprite (lightning) Sputter cleaning Sputter deposition Sputtering SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions...
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Butler's Sprite. He is in charge of the red Sprites that mine red Color Crystals. O.J. – Lala Orange's Sprite. He is in charge of the orange Sprites that...
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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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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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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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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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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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