Sprites

[anglepose]

have you ever heard of sprites there pretty intresting things.

 

a sprite is where a negative ( i think) discharge from positive lightning (usaly lightning is negative but you get freak instances of possitivity )

disperses in the upper atmospher the sprites can be 10 times the hight of the lightening reaching all the way to the tropo sphere. theres more on this wiki entry on lightning

[erich]

After a little searching, this seemed to have the best hard numbers on the observations of sprites.

 

Dr. Mark A. Stanley's Dissertation

http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~stanleym/dissertation/main.html

 

Erich

[Turtle]

have you ever heard of sprites there pretty intresting things.

I used to have a link to some photos of sprites from an observatory in Europe (either Italy or Spain?:ud: ). I can't find it any more but that may be enough of a lead for some Googlin'.

Nice topic Angle.:)

[erich]

OK turtle........ ya got me searching.........here's some of my finds:

 

Gamma Rays in Lightning:

 

http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/PDF/Gammarays.pdf

 

 

Noctilucent Cloud: Observers' Homepage

http://www.nlcnet.co.uk/

 

And This I should start a new thread with in the Astrophysic section:

 

Electric Plasmas Rule All:

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=88edua1k

 

 

Erich

[Turtle]

OK turtle........ ya got me searching.........here's some of my finds:

 

Gamma Rays in Lightning:

 

http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/PDF/Gammarays.pdf

 

 

Noctilucent Cloud: Observers' Homepage

http://www.nlcnet.co.uk/

 

And This I should start a new thread with in the Astrophysic section:

 

Electric Plasmas Rule All:

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=88edua1k

 

 

Erich

Sweet Erich! :) I have read all the first paper you linked to; I have seen these rocket-induced lightning guys on a science channel show. Gamma burst from lightning of all things.:ud:

I have this to add to the mix while I finish reading the other links.

http://eurosprite.blogspot.com/

 

PS This looks useful too;found the last 2 Gogglin "Spanish observatory sprites".

http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradGeoscience_6_MT.html