Thunderstorms are natural laboratories for studying electrical discharges in air, where the
vast temporal, spatial, and energy scales available can spawn surprising phenomena that …

In this work, we represent the lightning initiation scenario as a sequence of two transitions of
discharge activity to progressively larger spatial scales: the first one is from small-scale …

We have observed unusual plasma formations (UPFs) in artificial clouds of charged water
droplets using a high‐speed infrared camera operating in conjunction with a high‐speed …

Streamer discharges are thin plasma channels that precede lightning and sparks. They
usually evolve in bundles as stochastic tree-like structures and are inherently difficult to …

Обсуждаются фундаментальные проблемы физики молнии и последние достижения
инструментальной (прежде всего спутниковой) регистрации разрядных явлений в …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce electrical discharge phenomena known as
transient luminous events above thunderstorms to the lightning protection community …

This paper reports a modeling study on the dynamics of relatively long streamers initiated
from an isolated hydrometeor in subbreakdown (0.5 Ek) and overbreakdown (1.5 Ek) electric …

In this study we analyze the discharge morphologies of five confirmed negative sprite‐parent
discharges and the associated charge structures of the thunderstorms that produced them …

Lightning streamers and leaders need thermal electrons to initiate, but free electrons are
extremely rare in the wet air of a thundercloud. Here we analyze the probabilities that high …

Fundamental problems of lightning physics are reviewed, and recent advances in the
instrumental (primarily satellite) detection of atmospheric discharge phenomena are …