"STEVE" meaning in English

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        "2": "strong thermal emission velocity enhancement"
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  "etymology_text": "(2016) Back-formation from Steve (nickname) given to this aurora-like light. Acronym of strong thermal emission velocity enhancement. The nickname \"Steve\" resulted from a meeting between citizen scientists and researchers from the University of Calgary at a bar, to discuss the purple light. 'Steve' is the namesake of a cartoon character from the 2006 animated film \"Over the Hedge\", where cartoon animals try to peek over a suburban hedge. The backronym resulted from researchers creating a meaning to the nickname \"Steve\", keeping the original nickname for the formal name.",
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        {
          "english": "subauroral ion drift",
          "translation": "subauroral ion drift",
          "word": "SAID"
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          "ref": "2018 March 14, Sarah Lewin, “Meet ‘Steve,’ the Aurora-Like Mystery Scientists Are Beginning to Unravel”, in Space.com, retrieved 17 Mar 2018:",
          "text": "Researchers first became aware of STEVE after members of a Facebook group called the Alberta Aurora Chasers (which refers to the province in western Canada) began posting photos of unusual purplish-greenish streaks oriented nearly vertically in the sky.",
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          "ref": "2018, \"On the Origin of STEVE: Particle Precipitation or Ionospheric Skyglow?\", Geophysical Research Letters, B. Gallardo‐Lacourt; J. Liang; Y. Nishimura; E. Donovan;, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078509",
          "text": "Although STEVE has been documented by amateur night sky watchers for decades, it is an exciting new upper atmospheric phenomenon for the scientific community."
        },
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          "text": "2018, \"Historical observations of STEVE\", arXiv, Mark Bailey; Conor Byrne; Rok Nezic; David Asher; James Finnegan;, BIBCODE: 2018arXiv180801872B\nRespecting its nickname, they have dubbed the phenomenon STEVE, an acronym for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement."
        },
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          "ref": "2018, \"New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere\", Science Advances, Elizabeth A. MacDonald et al.;, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0030",
          "text": "First, in the unfiltered white-light STEVE is a narrow purple band with the strongest emissions saturating to white"
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        "An aurora-like light found in southern Canada (consistently lower latitude, unlike the aurora borealis which is generally high latitude), composed of a glowing purple ribbon of light, with green spikes coming off obliquely parallel to each other, moving at about 6.5 km/s East to West. Presumably occurs in the southern hemisphere as well."
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          "text": "Researchers first became aware of STEVE after members of a Facebook group called the Alberta Aurora Chasers (which refers to the province in western Canada) began posting photos of unusual purplish-greenish streaks oriented nearly vertically in the sky.",
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          "text": "Although STEVE has been documented by amateur night sky watchers for decades, it is an exciting new upper atmospheric phenomenon for the scientific community."
        },
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          "text": "2018, \"Historical observations of STEVE\", arXiv, Mark Bailey; Conor Byrne; Rok Nezic; David Asher; James Finnegan;, BIBCODE: 2018arXiv180801872B\nRespecting its nickname, they have dubbed the phenomenon STEVE, an acronym for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement."
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          "text": "First, in the unfiltered white-light STEVE is a narrow purple band with the strongest emissions saturating to white"
        }
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