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Atmospherics Associated with Sprites from Elf/Vlf Observations on the Kamchatka Peninsula

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Information about the main characteristics of sprites and related lightning discharges is given. Results are presented of the analysis of atmospherics recorded using the IZMIRAN mobile equipment at the expedition site near the Levaya Avacha River in September, October 2002 and in August, November 2004 on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The results of the analysis are given of electromagnetic emission from lightning discharges that occurred on the Kamchatka Peninsula in July and August 2017 that were recorded by the equipment of the Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio Wave Propagation, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences at the Karymshina expedition site are presented. The percentage of positive lightning discharges on the western and southern coasts of the Kamchatka Peninsula, which can be associated with sprites has been estimated.

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5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank T.A. Vostrikova and V.K. Mikhailova for the initial processing of registration data. Many thanks to G.A. Mikhailova for posing the problem of sprite indicators.

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The work was carried out within the framework of the Physical processes in the system of near space and geospheres under solar and lithospheric influences, registration number: AAAA-A21-121011290003-0, and Investigation of the structure and dynamics of the ionosphere and the conditions for the propagation of radio waves, GR no. 01201356396 state tasks.

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  1. Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio Wave Propagation, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Paratunka, Yelizovsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Russia

    G. I. Druzhin & E. I. Malkin

  2. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN), Moscow, Troitsk, Russia

    O. V. Kapustina

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Druzhin, G.I., Malkin, E.I. & Kapustina, O.V. Atmospherics Associated with Sprites from Elf/Vlf Observations on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Geomagn. Aeron. 63, 620–628 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793223600352

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