sprite halo
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
sprite halo (plural sprite halos or sprite haloes)
- (astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, diffuse disk-shaped glows that precede sprites and propagate downward.
- 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges[1], page 37:
- In lhe: early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."
See also[edit]
- blue starter
- bluejet
- elve
- gigantic jet
- gnome
- pixie
- red sprite
- sprelve
- sprite
- transient luminous events
- troll
- upward lightning