anglepose Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 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 Turtle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erich Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 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.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erich Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 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' Homepagehttp://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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 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' Homepagehttp://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 ErichSweet 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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