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most citedSprite discharges on Venus and Jupiter-like planets: a laboratory investigation

67 citations · 100 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.ao-ph2024

Numerical simulations of the region of possible sprite inception in the mesosphere above winter thunderstorms under wind shear

Carynelisa Haspel, Yoav Yair

Transient luminous events (TLEs) is the collective name given to mesospheric electrical breakdown phenomena occurring in conjunction with strong lightning discharges in tropospheri…

physics.ao-ph2023

Space-based optical imaging of blue corona discharges on cumulonimbus cloud tops

Yoav Yair, Menahem Korzets, Adam Devir +2

The ILAN-ES (Imaging of Lightning And Nocturnal Emissions from Space) experiment was conducted in April 2022 as part of the Axiom company AX-1 private mission to the International…

physics.space-ph2023★ 8 cited

Observing lightning and transient luminous events from the International Space Station during ILAN-ES: an astronaut's perspective

Yoav Yair, Melody Korman, Colin Price +1

The ILAN-ES (Imaging of Lightning And Nocturnal Emissions from Space) experiment was conducted by Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe in April 2022 as part of the Axiom Space company AX…

astro-ph.IM2022

C3IEL: Cluster for Cloud Evolution, ClImatE and Lightning

Daniel Rosenfeld, Celine Cornet, Shmaryahu Aviad +15

Clouds play a major role in Earth's energy budget and hydrological cycle. Clouds dynamical structure and mixing with the ambient air have a large impact on their vertical mass and…

physics.ao-ph2010★ 67 cited

Sprite discharges on Venus and Jupiter-like planets: a laboratory investigation

Daria Dubrovin, Sander Nijdam, Eddie van Veldhuizen +3

Large sprite discharges at high atmospheric altitudes have been found to be physically similar to small streamer discharges in air at sea level density. Based on this understanding…

physics.ao-ph2008★ 25 cited

A study of the possibility of sprites in the atmospheres of other planets

Yoav Yair, Yukihiro Takahashi, Roy Yaniv +2

Sprites are a spectacular type of transient luminous events (TLE) which occur above thunderstorms immediately after lightning. They have shapes of giant jellyfish, carrots or colum…