Observations of blue corona discharges in thunderclouds

LS Husbjerg, T Neubert, O Chanrion… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Blue electric streamer discharges in the upper reaches of thunderclouds are observed as
flashes of 337.0 nm (blue) with faint or no emissions of 777.4 nm (red). Analyzing 3 years of …

Clusters of compact intracloud discharges (CIDs) in overshooting convective surges

S Chen, VA Rakov, Y Zhu, Z Ding - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We observed five clusters of upper‐level compact intracloud discharges (CIDs) moving
positive charge up over land and over water in Florida. The clusters each contained 3 to 6 …

Characterizing the near-global cloud vertical structures over land using high-resolution radiosonde measurements

H Xu, J Guo, B Tong, J Zhang, T Chen… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Cloud remains one of the largest uncertainties in weather and climate research due to the
lack of fine-resolution observations of cloud vertical structure (CVS) on a large scale. In this …

A comparative study of the electrical characteristics of positive and negative narrow bipolar events

FF Liu, BY Zhu, HL Zhou, GP Lu, M Ma… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - eppcgs.org
Narrow bipolar events (NBEs) are intriguing intra-cloud discharge that have attracted
enormous interest in the lightning community. They come with two polarities that dominate at …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the Researches of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere in China in 2020–2022

C Zeyu, XU Jiyao, C Hongbin, C Wen, REN Rongcai… - 空间科学学报, 2022 - cjss.ac.cn
This report reviews the researches for the middle and upper atmosphere in 2020–2022 by
Chinese scientists. The report consists of five parts introducing primarily the results from the …

Characterizing Pulse Attenuation of Intra-Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning with E-Field Signal Measured at Multiple Stations

W Wang, B Zhu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we analyze the waveform data of nearly 200,000 intra-cloud (IC) and cloud-to-
ground (CG) lightning discharges detected by the Jianghuai Area Sferic Array on 26–29 …