X-ray pulses observed above a mesoscale convective system

被引：77

作者：

Eack, KB

Beasley, WH

Rust, WD

Marshall, TC

Stolzenburg, M

机构：

[1] UNIV MISSISSIPPI,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,UNIVERSITY,MS 38677

[2] NOAA,NATL SEVERE STORMS LAB,NORMAN,OK 73069

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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 1996年 / 23卷 / 21期

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D O I：

10.1029/96GL02570

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

During a balloon flight into and above the stratiform region of a mesoscale convective system, we observed three xray pulses while the balloon was at an altitude of approximately 15 km MSL (atmospheric pressure of 130 mb). These pulses were one to two orders of magnitude above the background xray count rate with peak fluxes between 37 and 270 (cm(2)-s-sr)(-1) and durations of about one second. No significant electric field was measured at the time of these pulses.

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页码：2915 / 2918

页数：4

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