Based on experimental results of recent years, this article presents a qualitative description
of a possible mechanism (termed the Mechanism) covering the main stages of lightning …

This paper reports an observational study of lightning initial breakdown pulses (IBPs) using
the low‐frequency array radio telescope and a broadband magnetic field sensor. The data …

To date the true nature of initial breakdown pulses (IBPs) and narrow bipolar events (NBEs)
in lightning discharges remains a mystery. Recent experimental evidence has correlated …

Lightning flash initiation is studied using electric field change (E‐change) measurements
made in Florida. An initial E‐change (IEC) was found immediately before the first initial …

Previous observations show that some narrow bipolar events (NBEs) can initiate intracloud
discharges, but the role of NBE as lightning initiation is still unclear. During the summer of …

Our knowledge about the fine structure of lightning processes at Jupiter was substantially
limited by the time resolution of previous measurements. Recent observations of the Juno …

Lightning generated electromagnetic impulses propagating in the magnetospheric plasma
disperse into whistlers–several seconds long radio wave signals with decreasing frequency …

This paper describes luminosity and leader propagation during the initial breakdown (IB)
stage of a cloud‐to‐ground flash, beginning at 6.06 km altitude and 31.86 ms before the …

We examined characteristics of negative cloud-to-ground lightning flashes using their
electric field waveforms acquired at the Lightning Observatory in Gainesville (LOG), Florida …

Waveforms of 226 positive narrow bipolar pulses (NBPs) were obtained with five to eight
stations of E‐change meters covering an area of 70× 100 km2. The NBPs had typical …