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    Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown...
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    latitudes. Upper-atmospheric lightning is a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and...
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    Sprite (lightning) Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky "Belt...
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    called upper-atmospheric lightning. However, they are cold plasma phenomena that lack the hot channel temperatures of tropospheric lightning, so they...
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    ionosphere, and the atmosphere is known as the global atmospheric electrical circuit. Lightning discharges 30,000 amperes, at up to 100 million volts...
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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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  • Department at Tel Aviv University has commented that occurrences of upper-atmospheric lightning such as sprites, elves and blue jets could account for some of...
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    Lightning is an atmospheric electrical phenomenon and contributes to the global atmospheric electrical circuit. The three main kinds of lightning are...
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    generated by lightning strokes can propagate into the magnetosphere along the geomagnetic lines of force. Finally, upper-atmospheric lightning or sprites...
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    charge, and this can trigger upward lightning flashes and upper-atmospheric lightning. Ball lightning may be an atmospheric electrical phenomenon, the physical...
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    Aeronomy (category Atmospheric chemistry)
    of atmospheric tides allow researchers to monitor and predict changes in the Earth's atmosphere. "Upper-atmospheric lightning" or "upper-atmospheric discharge"...
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    members. Airglow Atmospheric tides Ionosphere Meteors Noctilucent clouds Polar aurora Sprite (lightning) Upper atmospheric lightning (Transient luminous...
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    Sprite (lightning) Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky Dichromatism...
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  • neo-fascist group Electron localization function ELVES, a type of upper atmospheric lightning Enceladus Life Finder, a proposed NASA astrobiology mission to...
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    droplets and water ice particles may generate higher-altitude lightning. Upper-atmospheric lightning has also been observed 260 km above the 1 bar level. The...
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  • eclipse, an astronomical event Transient luminous event, or upper-atmospheric lightning, a weather phenomenon Two-line element set, a format for distributing...
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    present, in which case plasma is called partially ionized. Neon signs and lightning are examples of partially ionized plasmas. Unlike the phase transitions...
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    Schumann resonances (category Atmospheric electricity)
    transient luminous events — sprites, ELVES, jets, and other upper-atmospheric lightning.[citation needed] A new field of interest using Schumann resonances...
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  • again Lightning (Plasma) Sprite (lightning) – Electrical discharges above thunderstorm clouds Ball lightning – Atmospheric electrical phenomenon Upper-atmospheric...
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    A global atmospheric electrical circuit is the continuous movement of atmospheric charge carriers, such as ions, between an upper conductive layer (often...
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    List of natural phenomena (category Atmospheric optical phenomena)
    Sprite (lightning) Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky Oceanographic...
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    Sprite (lightning) Subsun Sun dog Tangent arc Tyndall effect Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky Alpenglow...
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  • Pixie (name), list of people with the name Pixie, a type of upper-atmospheric lightning Pixie cut, short layered women's hairstyle with a shaggy fringe...
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  • used on gas cookers and many other applications Jets, a form of upper-atmospheric lightning Matra Djet (Matra Sports Jet), a French sports car Access Database...
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    Research Program Ionospheric heater S4 Index Soft gamma repeater Upper-atmospheric lightning Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere...
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  • interpretations Bioship, a science fiction concept of living spaceships Upper-atmospheric lightning "Who 'Discovered Space Animals'?", Civilian Saucer Intelligence...
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  • an Amor asteroid TARANIS, a satellite mission for study of upper atmospheric lightning phenomena; failed to reach orbit in 2020 Taranis, a character...
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    and 0.4% over the entire atmosphere. Air composition, temperature and atmospheric pressure vary with altitude. Within the atmosphere, air suitable for...
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    A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate...
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    ice, which fall deep into the atmosphere. Upper-atmospheric lightning has been observed in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, bright flashes of light that last...
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