Aircraft observations of a lightning channel in STEPS

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Oct 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30sasc3w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 19, pp. ASC 3-1, CiteID 1984, DOI 10.1029/2003GL017334

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Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Lightning, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Atmospheric Electricity, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Convective Processes, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Instruments And Techniques

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We analyze a portion of an intracloud lightning channel that was captured on video by an instrumented aircraft and mapped three-dimensionally by a ground-based lightning mapping array (LMA). By comparing the electric fields measured on the aircraft with a model which simulates the electrostatic field present after charge was effectively deposited by this flash, we estimate that the channel formed ~80 m in front of and passed ~30 m below the aircraft, in agreement with the average LMA locations, and that it deposited on the order of 0.02 mC/m of negative charge.

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