Subj: Lightning-Like Electrical
Discharges...Orbit On-Target Again
Date: 9/7/00 2:58:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: cleland@nwlink.com (James Cleland)
To: BARDSQUILL@aol.com
(9/7/00 Kent, you might want to put this along with the stuff from those
people who were brave enough to risk derision by posting the fact that they
are seeing anomalous "lightning". This is the kind of "smoking gun" confirmation
that they were not just seeing normal horizontal lightning. I believe that
it is very important that Orbit's Subscribers receive the kind of validation
they deserve)
GLOBAL CHANGE AND RECENT ORBIT OBSERVATIONS
OF LIGHTNING-LIKE DISCHARGES
(ALONG WITH GRAVITY WAVES, NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS, MESOSPHERIC ECHOES AND SODIUM
LAYERS)
It looks like Orbit Subscribers are not the only people paying attention
to all that new funny "lightning", IT TURNS OUT THAT WE WERE RIGHT, ALL ALONG.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK:
From http://www.nsf.gov/geo/egch/solar/gc_solar_cedar.html
"Over the next several years, CEDAR studies will focus on scientific areas
that have become most important to Global Change. An example of studies of
these processes lies in the middle atmosphere, including gravity waves and
tides, Arctic noctilucent clouds, polar mesospheric summer echoes, and sodium
layers. There will be expanded studies in electrodynamic coupling between
atmospheric layers, spurred on by recent observations of lightning-like
electrical discharges in the middle atmosphere above thunderstorms. New
instrumental techniques, including lidars and innovative optical and radiowave
methods, will better enable CEDAR objectives. An upgrade to the incoherent
scatter radars will allow higher time resolution and more extended altitude
coverage. We will continue efforts to cluster instruments at facilities,
especially the Polar Cap Observatory, where many strategic measurements are
needed. Information highways and advanced communications protocols will improve
access to CEDAR data and real-time experiment modeling."
Comment: Who is CEDAR, and what exactly are "strategic measurements"?