On runaway breakdown and upward propagating discharges

Details On runaway breakdown and upward propagating discharges On runaway breakdown and upward propagating discharges

Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996jgr...101.2297r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 101, Issue A2, p. 2297-2312

Physics

Plasma Physics

114

Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Lightning, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Atmospheric Electricity, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Middle Atmosphere-Energy Deposition, Electromagnetics: Plasmas

Scientific paper

The origins of mysterious γ ray and radio flashes recently detected by satellite-based instruments passing over thunderstorms are examined in the context of upward propagating discharges initiated by runaway air breakdown. Preliminary calculations normalized by the recent optical measurements of so-called sprites indicate that the runaway mechanism may well be the source of these emissions. If this is true, then upward discharges represent the first known manifestation of a fundamental, new process in plasma physics.

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