"Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges"
"Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges"
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10.1007/1-4020-4629-4
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2006-05
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M. Füllekrug;E. Mareev;M. Rycroft
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作者：
M. Füllekrug;E. Mareev;M. Rycroft
特别强烈的闪电发射可以在雷云上方产生瞬时发光事件，被称为精灵、精灵和喷气式飞机。中间层中这些短暂的光发射可以从雷云顶部到达电离层；它们提供了低层大气与高层大气耦合的直接证据。精灵可以说是日地物理学中最戏剧性的最新发现。在第一次对精灵进行地面视频记录后不久，航天飞机上的观察发现世界各地都有精灵和精灵。这些报告导致在北美、南美、澳大利亚、日本和欧洲进行了详细的精灵观测。随后，从国际空间站和中华卫星卫星等其他空间平台探测到精灵。在过去的15年里，在科学文献中发表了200多篇关于精灵的文章，以记录这一快速发展的新研究领域。很快就认识到了国际信息交流的必要性，SPRITE会议成为一个永久性的特点，在美国地球物理联盟(AGU)、国际无线电科学联合会(URSI)、国际地球磁学和大气学协会(IAGA)和欧洲地球科学联盟(EGU)的科学界中作出的贡献不断增加。
Particularly intense lightning discharges can produce transient luminous events above thunderclouds, termed sprites, elves and jets. These short lived optical emissions in the mesosphere can reach from the tops of thunderclouds up to the ionosphere; they provide direct evidence of coupling from the lower atmosphere to the upper atmosphere. Sprites are arguably the most dramatic recent discovery in solar-terrestrial physics. Shortly after the first ground based video recordings of sprites, observations on board the Space Shuttle detected sprites and elves occurring all around the world. These reports led to detailed sprite observations in North America, South America, Australia, Japan, and Europe. Subsequently, sprites were detected from other space platforms such as the International Space Station and the ROCSAT satellite. During the past 15 years, more than 200 contributions on sprites have been published in the scientific literature to document this rapidly evolving new research area. The need for international information exchange was quickly recognized, and sprite sessions became a permanent feature with a constantly growing number of contributions in the scientific communities of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and the European Geosciences Union EGU).