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A causal relationship between lightning and explosive spread F
Author(s) -
Woodman Ronald F.,
Kudeki Erhan
Publication year - 1984
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/gl011i012p01165
Subject(s) - explosive material , lightning (connector) , instability , electric field , plasma , physics , penetration (warfare) , ball lightning , environmental science , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , geophysics , geology , mechanics , geography , mathematics , nuclear physics , thermodynamics , power (physics) , archaeology , quantum mechanics , operations research
Experimental evidence for a causal relationship between lightning and explosive equatorial spread F is presented. It is proposed that explosive spread F is produced by rapidly growing plasma instabilities, which are triggered by sudden increases of the F region ambient electric fields due to the penetration of lightning fields into regions of weak or marginal instability.