Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3403816r&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 3, CiteID L03816
Physics
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Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Troposphere: Composition And Chemistry, Atmospheric Processes: Lightning, Atmospheric Processes: Atmospheric Electricity, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Constituent Sources And Sinks
Scientific paper
We present the first direct measurements of NO X generated by specific lightning sources. In July 2005, three negative lightning flashes were triggered using the rocket-and-wire technique at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT) at Camp Blanding, Florida. The NO X produced by these three rocket-triggered flashes was measured. The NO X production per unit charge was between 2 and 3 . 1020 molecules per meter per coulomb. The data show that the NO X production is primarily from long-duration, steady currents, as opposed to microsecond-scale impulsive return stroke currents. This observation implies that cloud discharges, which transfer, via a steady current of the order of 100 A, larger charges than ground discharges, but do not contain return strokes, are as efficient as (or more efficient than) cloud-to-ground discharges in producing NO X .
Cooray Vernon
DeCarlo B. A.
Jerauld J.
Liyanage P.
Olsen Richard Christopher
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