Recent online press articles

related to work on thunderstorm coupling to the mesosphere and ionosphere (red sprites, etc):

Physics Today, November, 2001, "Sprites, Elves, and Glow Discharge Tubes"

Nature Science News, 12 October 2001, "Sprites touch cloud-tops"

New York Times, July 18, 2000, "Lightning's Shocking Secrets"

American Scientist, July-August 2000, "Invisible Lights in the Sky"

Space.com headline, December 8, 1999, "New Clues to Fleeting Flashes High in the Atmosphere"

Discovery Online feature, June 25, 1999, "Thunder and Sprites"

NASA news, May 26, 1999, "What Comes Out the top of a Thunderstorm"

Hampshire Gazette, May 13, 1999, "UMass prof seeking sprites"

Science, May 7, 1999, "Catching Sprites by Radio"

New York Times, April 6, 1999, "Storm Ribbons"

CNN, April 5, 1999, "Radio signals help scientists track sprites"

Discover Magazine, April 5, 1999, "Secret of `Sprites' Exposed"

Science Daily, April 2, 1999, "First Estimates Developed of Lightning-Associated `Sprites' ..."

Stanford Report, January 1999, "VLF group confirms filamentary structure of atmospheric sprites"

Stanford Report, January 1998, "New red sprites model"

Scientific American,  August 1997, "Lightning between Earth and Space"

Discover Magazine, July 1997, "Heaven's New Fires"

Scientific American,  January 1997, "Sprites and Elves"

Environmental News Network, December 1996, "Sprites, elves, and blue jets explained" (about work at LANL)

Stanford Report, December 15, 1996, "Thunderstorms have flickering, high-altitude halos" (a press release)
 
 

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