Füllekrug, Martin, authorReising, Steven C., authorAmerican Geophysical Union, publisher2007-01-032007-01-031998Füllekrug, Martin and Steven C. Reising, Excitation of Earth-Ionosphere Cavity Resonances by Sprite-Associated Lightning Flashes, Geophysical Research Letters 25, no. 22 (November 15, 1998): 4145-4148.http://hdl.handle.net/10217/68069Simultaneously recorded discrete excitations of Earth-ionosphere cavity resonances at Silberborn, Germany, and Hollister, California, ~9.1 Mm apart, are used to triangulate source locations of lightning flashes in the continental United States with an accuracy of ~0.8 Mm, as verified by the National Lightning Detection Network. The identified lightning flashes are mainly associated with positive cloud-to-ground discharges with first return stroke peak currents ~20-70 kA. 80% of these particular lightning flashes are associated with sprites, as verified by simultaneous slow-light level TV camera observations at Yucca Ridge, Colorado. This high probability of sprite detection is attributed to particularly large cloud-to-ground lightning currents, simultaneously exciting both Earth-ionosphere cavity resonances and sprites.born digitalarticleseng©1998 American Geophysical Union.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.Text