We propose that the upcoming Decadal Survey on Solar and Space Physics describe prominent contributions of lightning and its impacts beyond the troposphere, particularly within the NASA Heliophysics portfolio. We present a brief review of several topics highly relevant to NSF and NASA. We opt to unify these topics into one white paper, with longer reviews/references included.

doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.1cd28060
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
Multiscale Dynamics

Cohen, M., Kosar, B., Halford, A., Ringuette, R., da Silva, C., J. Bortnik, Smith, D., J. Dwyer, Morales, C., M. McHarg, Derr, J., Kolmasova, I.& Ebert, U. (2023). The impacts of lightning beyond the troposphere. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55(3).https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.1cd28060