Journal
ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
Volume 233, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.104713
Keywords
Lightning type; Thundercloud; Electron acceleration; Energetic radiation; Cloud charge structure; Electric field
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- Armenian National Science and Education Fund [18T-1C042]
- Russian Science Foundation [17-12-01439]
- USA National Science Foundation [AGS-1701484]
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Recent studies of thunderstorm-related enhancements of fluxes of energetic radiation and particles at ground level suggest that removal of mid-level negative charge from the cloud by negative cloud-to-ground (-CG) lightning flashes or normal intracloud (IC) flashes serves to abruptly terminate those enhancements. However, it was not clear if the electron-accelerating electric field responsible for flux enhancements at ground was primarily between the main negative charge region and ground (produced due to the dominant effect of negative cloud charge) or between the mid-level negative and lower positive charge regions inside the thundercloud. Here, we report that these flux enhancements can be also abruptly terminated by inverted intracloud flashes and hybrid lightning flashes (inverted IC followed by negative CG). Based on the analysis of 13 events of these two types, we provide first evidence that the electric field between the mid-level negative and lower positive charge regions in the thundercloud can be responsible for the flux enhancements at ground level.
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