A method for determining intracloud lightning and ionospheric heights from VLF/LF electric field records

By David A. Smith, M. Heavner, A. Jacobson, X. Shao, R. Massey, R. Sheldon, K. Wiens. 2004

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Joseph R. Dwyer
2. Martin A. Uman
3. David M. Smith
4. X. Shao
5. T. Hamlin
6. V. Pasko
7. David M. Smith
8. S. Cummer

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Joseph R. Dwyer
2. Martin A. Uman

Citations in the corpus

• A link between terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes and intracloud lightning discharges (2005, methodology): “Furthermore, the total rise and fall time (5.2 ms) was less than 7 ms and the waveform was isolated within the 1.5 ms trigger length at Tampa, so it was a special form of +IC known as a +NBE [Smith et al., 2004].”
• A closer examination of terrestrial gamma‐ray flash‐related lightning processes (2010, methodology): “... As distance increases, the path length difference between the two waves will be small enough that the two reflections will overlap in time, as shown in the third, fourth, and fifth panels in Figure 1. [17] The time separations among the ground wave and the ionosphere‐reflected signals can be use”
• Runaway Breakdown and the Mysteries of Lightning (2005, background): “There is a sharp peak at 18 km for negative NBPs and at 13 km for positive ones (Smith et al., 2004, in reference 2).”
• Lightning detection with 3‐D discrimination of intracloud and cloud‐to‐ground discharges (2004, methodology): “In this particular example, the resulting heights of 16 km are unusual but not implausible because IC discharges of this type (‘narrow negative bipolar pulses’) have been frequently observed with various techniques [Smith et al., 1999, 2004].”
• Overview of Recent Progress in Lightning Research and Lightning Protection (2009, unknown): “convention) polarity, respectively [38].”
• The physics of lightning (2014, background): “Negative CIDs have been measured to have a source altitude between 16 and 20 km, possibly corresponding to the region between the main positive and upper negative (screening) charge regions above [406,407,426].”