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Blue jets produced by quasi‐electrostatic pre‐discharge thundercloud fields
Author(s) -
Pasko V. P.,
Inan U. S.,
Bell T. F.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/96gl00149
Subject(s) - ionization , streamer discharge , electrostatic discharge , electric field , physics , plasma , atomic physics , mechanics , computational physics , materials science , meteorology , ion , nuclear physics , voltage , quantum mechanics
Pre‐discharge quasi‐electrostatic (QE) fields immediately above the thundercloud lead to the formation and upward propagation of streamer type ionization channels with features in good agreement with recent video observations of Blue Jets.