blue starter
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
blue starter (plural blue starters)
- (meteorology) A rapidly expanding disc-shaped region of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, seen high above energetic lightning associated with hail-producing regions of thunderstorms, reaching up no higher than about 12 miles altitude.
- 2007, Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman, Lightning: Physics and Effects[1], Cambridge University Press, page 483:
- Blue starters were first observed in 1994.
See also[edit]
- bluejet
- elve
- gigantic jet
- gnome
- pixie
- red sprite
- sprite halo
- sprite
- transient luminous events
- troll
- upward lightning
References[edit]
- blue starter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “blue starter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.