Browsing by Author "Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco"

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    • High spectral resolution spectroscopy of sprites: A natural probe of the mesosphere 

      Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco; Passas, Maria; Luque, Alejandro; Sánchez, Justo; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan (2018-02-06)
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      We present the first high spectral resolution (0.24 nm) spectra of sprites. These spectra were recorded in Europe in the summers and falls of 2015 and 2016 and during January 2017. The use of high-spectral resolution has ...

    • High-resolution spectra of sprites and halos with GRASSP 

      Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco; Passas, Maria; Sánchez, Justo; Pérez Invernón, F. J.; Luque, Alejandro; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan (2017)
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      The first and simultaneous spectroscopic campaigns of TLEs were carried out in the mid 1990s [1, 2], soon after the discovery of TLEs in 1989 [3]. These initial campaigns provided preliminary results on the optical emissions ...

    • Initiation of lightning flashes simultaneously observed from space and the ground: Narrow bipolar events 

      López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Montañá Puig, Juan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Romero Durán, David; Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco; Pérez Invernón, Francisco José; Luque Estepa, Alejandro; Morales Rodríguez, Carlos Augusto; Neubert, Torsten; Rison, William; Krehbiel, P.; Navarro González, Javier; Østgaard, Nikolai; Reglero, Víctor (2022-04-15)
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      We investigate the initiation of four lightning flashes detected from ground by means of the Colombia Lightning Mapping Array (Colombia-LMA) and simultaneously observed from space by the optical sensors of the Atmosphere-Space ...

    • Lightning-ignited wildfires and long continuing current lightning in the Mediterranean Basin: Preferential meteorological conditions 

      Pérez Invernón, Francisco José; Huntrieser, Heidi; Soler López, Sergio; Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco; Pineda, Nicolau; Navarro González, Javier; Reglero, Víctor; Montanya Puig, Joan; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Koutsias, Nikos (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2021-12-02)
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      Lightning is the major cause of the natural ignition of wildfires worldwide and produces the largest wildfires in some regions. Lightning strokes produce about 5¿% of forest fires in the Mediterranean Basin and are one of ...

    • Lightning-produced nitrogen oxides per flash length obtained by using TROPOMI observations and the Ebro lightning mapping array 

      Pérez Invernón, Francisco José; Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Montañá Puig, Juan; Pineda Rüegg, Nicolau; López Trujillo, Jesús Alberto; Huntrieser, Heidi; Valks, Pieter; Loyola, Diego; Sero, Sora; Erbertseder, Thilo (2023-12-28)
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      Lightning is one of the main sources of NOx in the Earth's atmosphere. However, there is a large variability in NOx production during the lifetime of thunderstorms. In this study, we used the TROPOspheric Monitoring ...

    • Spectroscopy of a mesospheric ghost reveals iron emissions 

      Passas, Maria; Van der Velde, Oscar Arnoud; Gordillo Vázquez, Francisco; Gómez-Martín, Juan Carlos; Sánchez, Justo; Pérez Invernón, Francisco José; Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén; García Comas, Maia; Montañá Puig, Juan (2023-12-12)
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      Mesospheric Green emissions from excited Oxygen in Sprite Tops (ghosts) are infrequent and faint greenish transient luminous events that remain for hundreds of milliseconds on top of certain energetic sprites. The main ...