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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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Published in:Nat Commun
Main Authors: van der Velde, Oscar A., Montanyà, Joan, López, Jesús A., Cummer, Steven A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761152/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31554792
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12261-y
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