2015
Lightning inception from ice particles and extensive air showers
Publication
Publication
Presented at the
International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Iasi, Rumania
The electric fields in thunderstorms can exceed the breakdown value locally near ice particles present in thunderclouds. But are fields high enough and the regions large enough to initiate a streamer discharge? And where would a sufficient density of free electrons come from to start the discharge in the humid air that rapidly binds electrons in water-clusters?
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Cosmic Lightning | |
International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases | |
Organisation | Multiscale Dynamics |
A. Dubinova, A., Rutjes, C., Ebert, U., Buitink, S., Scholten, O., & Trinh, G. (2015). Lightning inception from ice particles and extensive air showers. In Proceedings of International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases 2015 (ICPIG 32) (pp. 1–4). |