Runaway Breakdown and the Mysteries of Lightning

By A. Gurevich, K. Zybin. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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High-Energy Atmospheric Physics: Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Related Phenomena (2012, background): “This hypothesis has gained a great deal of attention in recent years, both from the scientific community and from the popular press (Dwyer 2005a; Gurevich and Zybin 2005).”
Recent advances in theory of transient luminous events (2010, background): “…which were previously thought to require galactic cosmic rays and a relativistic avalanche multiplication process with spatial scales exceeding dimensions of streamer zones of lightning leaders by orders of magnitude [Gurevich et al., 1992; Gurevich and Zybin, 2001, 2005, and references therein].”
Global Catastrophic Risks (2008, background): “Cosmic ray-produced atmospheric showers of ionized particles trigger lightening discharges in the atmosphere (Gurevich and Zybin, 2005).”
The physics of lightning (2014, background): “Nevertheless, the name ‘‘runaway breakdown’’ is sometimes used to describe such runaway electrons avalanches [120,244,245].”
The global lightning-induced nitrogen oxides source (2007, background): “The threshold value decreases with altitude and is of the order of 15 100 to 400 kV m −1 , far smaller than in the laboratory, possibly because of cosmic-rayinduced electrical breakdown in the atmosphere (Dwyer, 2005; Gurevich and Zybin, 2005; Khaerdinov et al., 2005).”
Energy and fluxes of thermal runaway electrons produced by exponential growth of streamers during the stepping of lightning leaders and in transient luminous events (2011, background): “…convincing mechanism for production of TGFs as compared to themechanism of runaway breakdown initiated by relativistic electrons generated by cosmic rays [e.g.,Gurevich et al., 1992;Gurevich and Zybin, 2001; Gurevich et al., 2004; Gurevich and Zybin, 2005; Roussel‐Dupré et al., 1994; Dwyer, 2003].”
Problems in lightning physics—the role of polarity asymmetry (2006, methodology): “Marshall et al (1995) and Gurevich and Zybin (2005) offer this theory as an explanation for the discrepancy in electric field magnitudes.”