The influence of the high-altitude discharges (sprites and halos) on the mesospheric chemical composition and the photon radiation, which is typical of the discharges, is analyzed. A onedimensional self-consistent model of the high-altitude discharges for altitudes of 60 to 90 km, which is the extension of the one-point sprite model [1], is developed. The electric field at the mesospheric altitudes from the noncompensated discharge in a cloud is specified in the dipole approximation with allowance for the features of the current flow in the lightning channel when the cloud–Earth discharge is developed in the troposphere. Perturbation of the ion, electron, and neutral-component densities from the sprite flare and the photon-emission intensity for the sprite and halo is analyzed. The threshold value of the dipole moment, which is required for the sprite initiation, is obtained. The dependence of the size of the diffuse region of the sprite on the dipole moment of the noncompensated electric discharge in the cloud is studied.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 56, Nos. 11–12, pp. 947–967, November–December 2013.
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Evtushenko, A.A., Kuterin, F.A. One-Dimensional Self-Consistent Model of the Sprite/Halo Influence on the Mesosphere Chemistry. Radiophys Quantum El 56, 853–871 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-014-9488-7
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