Unusual features of negative leaders' development in natural lightning, according to simultaneous records of current, electric field, luminosity, and high-speed video
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DOI: 10.1002/2016jd025891
Abstract: The development of downward and upward leaders that formed two negative cloud-to-ground return strokes in natural lightning, spaced only about 200 µs apart and terminating on ground only a few hundred meters away, was monitored at… read more here.
Keywords: electric field; simultaneous records; records current; speed ... See more keywords
A study of the ground-attachment process in natural lightning with emphasis on its breakthrough phase
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14842-7
Abstract: Synchronized high-speed (124 or 210 kiloframes per second) video images and wideband electromagnetic field records of the attachment process were obtained for 4 negative strokes in natural lightning at the Lightning Observatory in Gainesville, Florida. The… read more here.
Keywords: ground; attachment process; process; breakthrough phase ... See more keywords