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Nature Geoscience 1, 216 - 217 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo168
Subject Category: Atmospheric science
Atmospheric science: Predictable lightning paths?
Earle R. Williams1
- Earle R. Williams is at the Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
e-mail: earlew@ll.mit.edu
Abstract
Electrical discharges from thunderstorms include bolts-from-the-blue, blue jets and gigantic jets along with the more common intracloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. All these phenomena can be understood in a single framework.
Lightning is chaotic, meandering and fitful. Lightning paths are kinked and tortuous, and depart substantially from the smooth lines of textbook-drawn electric fields.
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Gigantic jets emerge from the top of thunderstorms and extend all the way to the ionosphere at altitudes of 90km. Simultaneous video images and magnetic field measurements of a gigantic jet demonstrate an electric charge transfer between the thunderstorm and the ionosphere that is comparable to that observed in cloud-to-ground lightning. Gigantic jets emerge from the top of thunderstorms and extend all the way to the ionosphere at altitudes of 90km. Simultaneous video images and magnetic field measurements of a gigantic jet demonstrate an electric charge transfer between the thunderstorm and the ionosphere that is comparable to that observed in cloud-to-ground lightning.Nature Geoscience Letter (01 Sep 2009)
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