This paper presents an overview of the recent modeling efforts directed to the interpretation
of observed features of transient luminous events termed sprites, blue jets, and gigantic jets …

An overview of the general phenomenology and physical mechanism of large-scale
electrical discharges termed'sprites' observed at high altitude in the Earth's atmosphere …

Modeling studies indicate that double‐headed streamers originating from single electron
avalanches in lightning‐driven quasi‐static electric fields at mesospheric altitudes …

A full time-dependent kinetic study is presented for the main microscopic collisional and
radiative processes underlying the optical flashes associated with an impulsive (τ= 5 µs) …

For over a century, numerous undocumented reports have appeared about unusual large-
scale luminous phenomena above thunderclouds,,,,, and, more than 80 years ago, it was …

Streamers are a generic mode of electric breakdown of large gas volumes. They play a role
in the initial stages of sparks and lightning, in technical corona reactors and in high altitude …

We report intensified high speed video observations of two mesospheric transient luminous
events acquired at 5000 and 7200 frames per second. Downward streamers appear to …

A study is conducted of the principal chemical effects induced by the passage of a single
sprite streamer through the mesosphere at an altitude of 70 km. Recent high‐speed imaging …

The present report investigates using simultaneous observations of coincident gravity waves
and sprites to establish an upper limit on sprite-associated thermal energy deposition in the …

We report impulse lightning charge moment changes (defined as occurring in the first 2 ms
after return stroke onset) in all cloud‐to‐ground lightning strokes detected by the National …