FIGURE 1. Infrared cloud map near Taiwan taken by the GMS 5 satellite at 14:31 ut, 22 July 2002.

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Gigantic jets between a thundercloud and the ionosphere

H. T. Su, R. R. Hsu, A. B. Chen, Y. C. Wang, W. S. Hsiao, W. C. Lai, L. C. Lee, M. Sato and H. Fukunishi

Nature 423, 974-976(26 June 2003)

doi:10.1038/nature01759

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The occurrence times of five gigantic jets were 14:09:18 ut (event 1), 14:11:59 ut (event 2), 14:15:15 ut (event 3), 14:20:01 ut (event 4) and 14:20:54 ut (event 5). The two white lines represent the range of the line-of-sight extending from the observation site (at Kenting, Taiwan) to the centre of a gigantic jet. The convective core of the thunderstorm (red colour) is at a distance of 440 plusminus 20 km from Kenting. The colours on the infrared map represent the temperature and height of clouds, with red indicating the coldest and highest region. The cloud top inferred from the temperature profile is 16 km for the convective core.

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