Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2018
Abstract
We analyze parameters of lightning discharges parent to sprites observed in N'ydek, Czechia and in Sopron, Hungary, during a storm over Central Europe on 6 Aug 2013. Magnetic field waveforms were recorded in Nov'y Kostel, Czechia.
Locations and energies of lightning discharges were provided by the World Wide Lightning Location Network. We find that the mean energy of 11 sprite-parent lightning (28 kJ) is substantially larger than the mean energy of 91 non parent lightning discharges (18 kJ).