It is now well established that both thunderclouds and lightning routinely emit x-rays and gamma-rays. These emissions appear over wide timescales, ranging from sub-microsecond …
JR Dwyer - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
As thunderclouds charge, the large‐scale fields may approach the relativistic feedback threshold, above which the production of relativistic runaway electron avalanches becomes …
AY Kostinskiy, VS Syssoev, NA Bogatov… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Properties of positive and negative leaders developing in air gaps ranging from 4 to 10 m that were subjected to 100/7,500‐μs voltage impulses were examined using a two …
CJ Biagi, MA Uman, JD Hill, DM Jordan… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We present 10 high‐speed video images that depict the bottom 150 m of a downward‐ negative, dart‐stepped leader in a rocket‐and‐wire triggered flash, recorded at 240 …
AY Starikovskiy, NL Aleksandrov… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of positive and negative streamers is numerically simulated in atmospheric pressure air in the range of parameters corresponding to the streamer deceleration and …
JR Dwyer, MM Schaal, E Cramer… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes (TGFs) are bright, sub‐millisecond bursts of gamma‐rays, originating within the Earth's atmosphere. Most TGFs have been detected by spacecraft in …
PM Bitzer, HJ Christian, M Stewart… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Arrays that detect and locate the four‐dimensional spacetime positions of radiation sources from lightning have largely utilized sensors sensitive to the very high frequency (VHF) …
Using recent X‐ray and gamma‐ray observations of terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes (TGFs) from spacecraft and of natural and rocket‐triggered lightning from the ground, along with …
R Zeng, C Zhuang, X Zhou, S Chen, Z Wang… - High …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Lightning and lightning induced effects have significant influence on many aspects affecting the public, which makes the research of lightning and lightning protection very important …