The following is a listing of sites with Sprite information and some general lightning related sites. No attempt is made to have this a definitive listing. Please send additions and corrections to Liv Lyons - livlyons@frii.com).

SPRITES, ELVES, and BLUE JETS

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Shuttle Lightning Observations - Skeet Vaughn

NEW MEXICO TECH:
Lightning Mapping System
Mark Stanley Homepage
Sprites Page

STANFORD UNIVERSITY:
VLF Research Group
Stephen Reising Homepage
Chris Barrington-Leigh Homepage
Press Release

University of Alaska

UC at Berkely

MIT - Sprites, Q-Bursts and Positive Ground Strokes (Dennis Boccippio)

Weatherwise Article Aug-Sept 1997 Sprites, Elves and Blue Jets

University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) 1997 Australian Campaign

Scientific American Article - August 1997

University of Houston - SPRITES'99 Balloon Flight Homepage

LIGHTNING and MISCELLANEOUS

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Lighting Imaging Sensor

A NASA Lightning Primer

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Optical Transient Detector

NASA Kennedy Space Center:

LDAR Homepage NASA Fact Sheet: Lightning and the Space Program

1999 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at GHCC

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Weather, Lightning and Other Links (Europe)

New Lightning Research May Help Illumine Global Warming (Earle Williams) Christian Science Monitor 3/3/98

Electrical Properties of the Earth and It's Atmosphere

Colorado State University Cloud Electricity Research Group

The National Lightning Safety Institute

National Lightning Detection Network - Global Atmospherics, Inc.

Cooperative Institute for Applied Meteorological Studies. Glossary of Atmospheric Electricity Terms.

Lightning Links from the National Weather Service

The Mystery of Cloud Electrification [what scientists know about how electrical charge builds up in clouds]

This page last updated on 9/3/2004 byLiv Lyons