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Lightning Induced Optical Emissions in the Ionosphere

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A discussion of lightning induced optical emissions in the ionosphere is presented. Emphasis is placed on accounting for the puzzling observation of the spatial structure in the optical emissions and the Sprite ‘seeding’ before the development of the ‘tendrils’ (or streamers). In this context we discuss the generation of spatial brightness variations, within the required lightning parameter thresholds, due to spatio-temporal electric fields and spatial neutral density perturbations.

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  1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    J. A. Valdivia

  2. World Institute for Space Environment Research (WISER), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    J. A. Valdivia

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  1. World Institute for Space Environment Research - WISER, University of Adelaide, Australia

    A. C.-L. Chian

  2. INPE, Brazil

    A. C.-L. Chian

  3. University of Sydney, Australia

    I. H. Cairns

  4. University of Southampton, UK

    S. B. Gabriel

  5. FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics, Netherlands

    J. P. Goedbloed

  6. Kyushu University, Japan

    T. Hada

  7. Space Research Institute, Austria

    M. Leubner

  8. Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes/CNR, Italy

    L. Nocera

  9. University of New South Wales, Australia

    R. Stening

  10. Rice University, USA

    F. Toffoletto

  11. Indian Institute of Science, India

    C. Uberoi

  12. University of Chile, Chile

    J. A. Valdivia

  13. University of L’Aquila, Italy

    U. Villante

  14. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    C.-C. Wu

  15. National Astronomical Observatories, China

    Y. Yan

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Valdivia, J.A. (2003). Lightning Induced Optical Emissions in the Ionosphere. In: Chian, A.CL., et al. Advances in Space Environment Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1069-6_26

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