Inverted-polarity electrical structures in thunderstorms in the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS)

By T. Lang, L. J. Miller, M. Weisman, S. Rutledge, Llyle J. Barker, Viswanathan N. Bringi, V. Chandrasekar, A. Detwiler, N. Doesken, J. Helsdon and 8 more. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanical Engineering

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. V. Pasko
2. E. Bruning
3. Joseph R. Dwyer
4. E. Mansell
5. D. MacGorman
6. C. Ziegler
7. Martin A. Uman
8. C. Saunders

In Global and Planetary Change

1. E. Bruning
2. D. MacGorman
3. E. Mansell
4. C. Ziegler
5. V. Pasko
6. C. Saunders
7. Jerry M. Straka
8. Joseph R. Dwyer

In Mechanical Engineering

1. C. Saunders
2. Joseph R. Dwyer
3. Martin A. Uman

Citations in the corpus

• Numerically Simulated Electrification and Lightning of the 29 June 2000 STEPS Supercell Storm (2006, methodology): “Additional storms having inverted-polarity electrical structure were observed in the STEPS field program and were studied by Rust and MacGorman (2002), Rust et al. (2005), MacGorman et al. (2005), and Wiens et al. (2005).”
• Upward electrical discharges from thunderstorms (2007, background): “The jet occurred in a decaying storm system that had an inverted electrical structur”
• Accuracy of the Lightning Mapping Array (2003, methodology): “[4] Using Proctor’s approach, Lennon [1975] implemented a seven station network for monitoring lightning over and around Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida.”
• An Overview of Lightning Locating Systems: History, Techniques, and Data Uses, With an In-Depth Look at the U.S. NLDN (2009, background): “Today, 3-dimensional VHF TOA lightning mapping syst ems provide the most complete record of the spatial and temporal development of lightning channe ls, making it possible to infer complex charge structures in clouds [43], [7].”
• The physics of lightning (2014, result): “In contrast to the picture described above, some storms are found to have inverted charge structures (lowermain positive and upper main negative) [62].”
• Theory and Observations of Controls on Lightning Flash Size Spectra (2013, background): “In particular, the vector electric field measurements in Mo et al. (2002), MacGorman et al. (2005), and Rust et al. (2005) show variability down to the scale of a kilometer in some cases.”
• Laboratory studies of the effect of cloud conditions on graupel/crystal charge transfer in thunderstorm electrification (2006, background): “Recent observations by Rust and MacGorman (2002) and Rust et al. (2005) suggest the possibility of an inverted polarity dipole in some severe storms; this situation also needs to be accounted for by the dependence of charge sign on the microphysics of the cloud and particle conditions in various…”