Gradual increase of energetic radiation associated with thunderstorm activity at the top of Mt. Fuji

Details Gradual increase of energetic radiation associated with thunderstorm activity at the top of Mt. Fuji Gradual increase of energetic radiation associated with thunderstorm activity at the top of Mt. Fuji

Jul 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3613804t&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 13, CiteID L13804

Physics

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Atmospheric Processes: Atmospheric Electricity, Atmospheric Processes: Lightning, Atmospheric Processes: Radiative Processes

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Fluctuations of energetic radiation that seemed to be caused by a summer thunderstorm were observed at the top of Mt. Fuji. The largest of such fluctuations was gradual and lasted for about 20 minutes, and was found to be high-energy gamma rays having a continuous energy spectrum up to 10 MeV or more. As for the feature of these fluctuations, it seems naturally that such fluctuations are caused by the bremsstrahlung photons generated by the energetic electrons produced continuously with an intense electric field in the thundercloud rather than originated in the process of lightning discharge.

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