Blue jets produced by quasi-electrostatic pre-discharge thundercloud fields

被引:56
作者
Pasko, VP
Inan, US
Bell, TF
机构
[1] STAR Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
[2] STAR Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford
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D O I
10.1029/96GL00149
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P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:301 / 304
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