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Gigantic jet discharges evolve stepwise through the middle atmosphere

In 2002 it was discovered that a lightning discharge can rise out of the top of tropical thunderstorms and branch out spectacularly to the base of the ionosphere at 90 km altitude. Several dozens of such gigantic jets have been recorded or photographed since, but eluded capture by high-speed video c...

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Autores principales: van der Velde, Oscar A., Montanyà, Joan, López, Jesús A., Cummer, Steven A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31554792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12261-y