The physics of lightning

JR Dwyer, MA Uman - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Despite being one of the most familiar and widely recognized natural phenomena, lightning
remains relatively poorly understood. Even the most basic questions of how lightning is …

Terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes in the Fermi era: Improved observations and analysis methods

MS Briggs, S Xiong, V Connaughton… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A new data mode and new analysis methods are used to detect Terrestrial Gamma‐ray
Flashes (TGFs) with the Fermi Gamma‐ray Burst Monitor (GBM) 10 times more frequently …

Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge

T Enoto, Y Wada, Y Furuta, K Nakazawa, T Yuasa… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Lightning and thunderclouds are natural particle accelerators. Avalanches of relativistic
runaway electrons, which develop in electric fields within thunderclouds,, emit …

Observations of the origin of downward terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes

JW Belz, PR Krehbiel, J Remington… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we report the first close, high‐resolution observations of downward‐directed
terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes (TGFs) detected by the large‐area Telescope Array cosmic …

Gamma-ray glow preceding downward terrestrial gamma-ray flash

Y Wada, T Enoto, Y Nakamura, Y Furuta… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Two types of high-energy events have been detected from thunderstorms. One is “terrestrial
gamma-ray flashes”(TGFs), sub-millisecond emissions coinciding with lightning discharges …

Ground‐level observation of a terrestrial gamma ray flash initiated by a triggered lightning

BM Hare, MA Uman, JR Dwyer… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We report on a terrestrial gamma ray flash (TGF) that occurred on 15 August 2014 coincident
with an altitude‐triggered lightning at the International Center for Lightning Research and …

Experimental study on hard X-rays emitted from metre-scale negative discharges in air

PO Kochkin, APJ van Deursen… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the development of metre long negative discharges and focus on their x-ray
emissions. We describe appearance, timing and spatial distribution of the x-rays. They …

Gamma ray showers observed at ground level in coincidence with downward lightning leaders

RU Abbasi, T Abu‐Zayyad, M Allen… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bursts of gamma ray showers have been observed in coincidence with downward
propagating negative leaders in lightning flashes by the Telescope Array Surface Detector …

Catalog of gamma-ray glows during four winter seasons in Japan

Y Wada, T Matsumoto, T Enoto, K Nakazawa… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
In 2015, the Gamma-Ray Observation of Winter Thunderstorms (GROWTH) collaboration
launched a mapping observation campaign for high-energy atmospheric phenomena …

The First Fermi‐GBM Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flash Catalog

OJ Roberts, G Fitzpatrick, M Stanbro… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first Fermi Space Telescope Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) catalog of
4,144 terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs), detected since launch in 11 July 2008 through …