Progress in the Study of Transient Luminous and Atmospheric Events: A Review

Сурков, В. В.; Hayakawa, Masashi

doi:10.1007/s10712-020-09597-2

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“…Each of these types of phenomena exhibits a different morphology but they likely share common physical processes. The blue color indicates the presence of electron‐impact excitation of molecular nitrogen (Gordillo‐Vázquez & Pérez‐Invernón, 2021; Pasko, 2008; Surkov & Hayakawa, 2020) and the weak or absent atomic oxygen line at 777.4 nm, indicates that air does not reach high temperatures, typically associated with lightning leaders at ground level. This points to streamer coronas being the key component of BLUEs, a conclusion supported by the close association between BLUEs and narrow bipolar events (NBEs) (F. Liu et al., 2018; Soler et al., 2020), which are radio emissions also attributed to corona discharges in thunderclouds (N. Liu et al., 2019; Rison et al., 2016; Tilles et al., 2019).…”

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Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: The Optical Signal of Shallow In‐Cloud Discharges

Luque

Gordillo‐Vázquez

et al. 2021

JGR Atmospheres

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Narrow Bipolar Events (NBEs) are powerful radio emissions from thunderstorms, which have been recently associated with blue optical flashes on cloud tops and attributed to extensive streamer electrical discharges named fast breakdown. Combining data obtained from a thunderstorm over South China by the space‐based Atmosphere Space Interactions Monitor, the Vaisala GLD360 global lightning network and very low frequency/low frequency radio detectors, here we report and analyze for the first time the optical emissions of blue luminous events associated with negative NBEs and located at the top edge of a thundercloud. These emissions are weakly affected by scattering from cloud droplets, allowing us to estimate the source extension and optical energy involved in the process. The optical energy in the 337‐nm band emitted by fast breakdown is about 104 J, which involves around 109 streamer initiation events.

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Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: The Optical Signal of Shallow In‐Cloud Discharges

Luque

Gordillo‐Vázquez

et al. 2021

JGR Atmospheres

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“…Each of these types of phenomena exhibits a different morphology but they likely share common physical processes. The blue color indicates the presence of electron-impact excitation of molecular nitrogen (Gordillo-Vázquez & Pérez-Invernón, 2021;Pasko, 2008;Surkov & Hayakawa, 2020) and the weak or absent atomic oxygen line at 777.4 nm, indicates that air does not reach high temperatures, typically associated with lightning leaders at ground level. This points to streamer coronas being the key component of BLUEs, a conclusion supported by the close association between BLUEs and narrow bipolar events (NBEs) (F. Liu et al, 2018;Soler et al, 2020), which are radio emissions also attributed to corona discharges in thunderclouds (N. Liu et al, 2019;Rison et al, 2016;Tilles et al, 2019).…”

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Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: the Optical Signal of Shallow In-Cloud Discharges

Luque

Gordillo‐Vázquez

et al. 2021

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“…The first stage of cloud formation called cumulus cloud formed when the moist air rises in the unstable atmosphere, and as the air rises higher, the condensation process also happen in faster rate. All thunderstorm formation start with air rising into the unstable atmosphere before forming a convective cell [1]- [7]. However, the air can be upraise in various ways by which where (land, oceanic, or mountain) or when (monsoons) they were form [8]- [10].…”

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Distribution of attempted leader with monsoon seasons and negative cloud-to-ground flashes in Melaka, Malaysia

Isa

Baharudin

Zainuddin

et al. 2021

IJEECS

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<p>Ninety (90) waveforms recognized as attempted leader were identified with both positive (84 events) and negative (6 events) initial polarity observed from four consecutive years of data (N=10,206). The positive attempted leader shows no correlation with the number of thunderstorms producing it during monsoon. Meanwhile, the negative attempted leader during monsoon and both polarity of attempted leader (positive and negative) during inter-monsoon shows positive correlation with the number of thunderstorms producing it. In this study, the yearly statistical distribution of negative cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes which were classified as positive preliminary breakdown pulses (214 events) and negative preliminary breakdown pulses (4982 events) in accordance of their preliminary polarity were also presented. In addition, there is no relationship of attempted leader and the initial breakdown of negative ground flash since both mechanisms performed as a negative correlation.</p>

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Progress in the Study of Transient Luminous and Atmospheric Events: A Review

Cited by 34 publications

References 187 publications

Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: The Optical Signal of Shallow In‐Cloud Discharges

Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: The Optical Signal of Shallow In‐Cloud Discharges

Blue Flashes as Counterparts to Narrow Bipolar Events: the Optical Signal of Shallow In-Cloud Discharges

Distribution of attempted leader with monsoon seasons and negative cloud-to-ground flashes in Melaka, Malaysia

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