A survey of ELF and VLF research on lightning‐ionosphere interactions and causative discharges

US Inan, SA Cummer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Extremely low frequency (ELF) and very low frequency (VLF) observations have formed the
cornerstone of measurement and interpretation of effects of lightning discharges on the …

Recent advances in theory of transient luminous events

VP Pasko - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents an overview of the recent modeling efforts directed to the interpretation
of observed features of transient luminous events termed sprites, blue jets, and gigantic jets …

Recent results from studies of electric discharges in the mesosphere

T Neubert, M Rycroft, T Farges, E Blanc… - Surveys in …, 2008 - Springer
The paper reviews recent advances in studies of electric discharges in the stratosphere and
mesosphere above thunderstorms, and their effects on the atmosphere. The primary focus is …

A computational study of accelerating, steady and fading negative streamers in ambient air

B Guo, X Li, U Ebert, J Teunissen - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We study negative streamers in ambient air using a 2D axisymmetric fluid model. Depending
on the background electric field, we observe accelerating, steady and fading negative …

Coordinated observations of sprites and in‐cloud lightning flash structure

G Lu, SA Cummer, J Li, L Zigoneanu… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The temporal and spatial development of sprite‐producing lightning flashes is examined
with coordinated observations over an asymmetric mesoscale convective system (MCS) on …

Lightning and middle atmospheric discharges in the atmosphere

D Siingh, RP Singh, S Kumar, T Dharmaraj… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent development in lightning discharges including transient luminous events (TLEs) and
global electric circuit are discussed. Role of solar activity, convective available potential …

Lightning morphology and impulse charge moment change of high peak current negative strokes

G Lu, SA Cummer, RJ Blakeslee… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We have analyzed very high frequency lightning mapping observations and remote
magnetic field measurements to investigate connections between lightning morphology and …

On the inception of streamers from sprite halo events produced by lightning discharges with positive and negative polarity

J Qin, S Celestin, VP Pasko - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In the sprite halo events produced by cloud‐to‐ground lightning discharges, the spatial
offsets, long delays, and polarity asymmetry related to the inception of sprite streamers are …

Resolution of the sprite polarity paradox: The role of halos

E Williams, CL Kuo, J Bór, G Sátori, R Newsome… - Radio …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study revisits the sprite polarity paradox, first manifest by observations that exceptional
cloud-to-ground flashes with negative polarity generally did not produce detectable sprites …

[HTML][HTML] Broadband longwave radio remote sensing instrumentation

MB Cohen, RK Said, EW Paschal… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We present the performance characteristics of a high-sensitivity radio receiver for the
frequency band 0.5-470 kHz, known as the Low Frequency Atmospheric Weather …