Upper-atmospheric lightning
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upper-atmospheric-lightning-177-11565725
title:
Upper-atmospheric lightning
text:
Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and storm clouds. Upper-atmospheric lightning is believed to be electrically induced forms of luminous plasma. The preferred usage is transient luminous event (TLE), because the various types of electrical-discharge phenomena in the upper atmosphere lack several characteristics of t
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description:
Rare transient luminous events that occur over tops of thunder storms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning
date created:
2007-04-21T14:09:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T15:56:26Z
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