Optical diagnostics of streamer discharges in atmospheric gases

M Šimek - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews optical diagnostic methods and approaches applied to study the
fundamentals of streamer discharges, considering the peculiarities of streamers developing …

Lightning related transient luminous events at high altitude in the Earth's atmosphere: Phenomenology, mechanisms and effects

VP Pasko, Y Yair, CL Kuo - Space science reviews, 2012 - Springer
This paper presents a literature survey on the recent developments related to experimental
and modeling studies of transient luminous events (TLEs) in the middle atmosphere termed …

Dynamics of streamer‐to‐leader transition at reduced air densities and its implications for propagation of lightning leaders and gigantic jets

CL Da Silva, VP Pasko - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we present modeling studies of air heating by electrical discharges in a wide
range of pressures. The developed model is capable of quantifying the different …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of decelerating streamers in inhomogeneous atmosphere with implications for runaway electron generation

AY Starikovskiy, NL Aleksandrov… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of positive and negative streamers is numerically simulated in atmospheric
pressure air in the range of parameters corresponding to the streamer deceleration and …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the impact of transient luminous events on the atmospheric chemistry: Past, present, and future

FJ Gordillo-Vázquez, FJ Pérez-Invernón - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Atmospheric electricity has been intensively studied during the last 30 years after the
discovery in 1989 of different forms of upper atmospheric electrical discharges (so–called …

Gas heating dynamics during leader inception in long air gaps at atmospheric pressure

L Liu, M Becerra - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The inception of leader discharges in long air gaps at atmospheric pressure is simulated
with a thermo-hydrodynamic model and a detailed kinetic scheme for N 2/O 2/H 2 O …

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 …

Experimental study of the dynamics of leader initiation with a long dark period

C Cheng, L Liu, H He, B Luo, J Hu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Leader discharge plays a key role in the breakdown of long air gap and the evolution of
natural lightning discharges. Prior to the formation of continuous leaders, streamer corona …

Elementary chemical and physical phenomena in electrical discharge plasma in gas-liquid environments and in liquids

BR Locke, P Lukes, JL Brisset - Plasma chemistry and catalysis …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical discharges in gas–liquid environments and in liquids (primarily water, but in some
cases also organic liquids) have been studied for a number of years for applications in …

Experimental simulation of red sprites in a laboratory

V Tarasenko, N Vinogradov… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.bilpubgroup.com
Over the past three decades, research of high-altitude atmospheric discharges has received
a lot of attention. This paper presents the results of experimental modeling of red sprites …